slimeboty

OK now read it again in David Brent's voice.

The guy is problematic.

Agreed. It's intentional so you don't leave the cord in.

It only takes a minute to charge it enough to use. The Verge are being kinda prissy

Does the desktop mail app count as iCloud mail?

"Don't buy domain names"

OK but why?

The dodgy guy who ran that website had to own the domain name somehow?

does HN use a heavy cache layer?

I assume not because every comment made would not be visible until cache expired. Unless they have a way to expire the cache (which is not dependable on most CDNs?)

thanks nickjj

"a stateless web app serving 100k requests on a tiny server and putting a CDN / caching layer in front of it"

That's a great question. For "live" stuff, it seems to me that Pheonix brings so much joy and simplicity, I'd happy pay for memory and hopefully scale in a sustainable way. This is all theoretical until we get a successful app, but it's good to see the future paths :)

Have been looking at the fly/Phoenix combo for a while

The one thing I can't wrap my head around is scaling, and the cost of scaling.

If this app magically exploded to 10,000 users at one time:

1. How do I scale with Fly.io? Can I autoscale, but somehow cap at a cost?

2. What parts of the stack would I have to pay attention to? Erlang/Elixir seem to handle a lot of the complication?

3. Are there (hidden?) costs that would concern me at fly.io with 10,000 simultaneous users? Or is there a clear way to estimate the costs at different points?

thank you - this looks very promising and (more importantly) fun!