AZeD1:


1) You do know that cluster has nothing to do with architecture right? You can have a cluster of monoliths right...
yes i know and thats why i I said "microservices-biased or monolith-biased", so i was simply asking upon what clusters closely resemble in terms of architecture and operations

2) I'm pretty sure nairaland as is today is a monolith and it works very well.
I never said monoliths dont work well, they do. 3G works well till tomorrow, does it mean its better than 4G?
If you live in a bad-network area, 4G might not be suitable for you, same for microservices which might not be suitable for your use-case, Still, 4G beats 3G hands-down, jsut as how microservices beats monoliths hands down.

AZeD1:

1) Shopify is at least 50 times bigger than Nairaland and it's still a monolith so what makes you think you need microservices? If you remove duplicate users (those with multiple accounts) and people who do not visit again how many do you think are members?

2) Sharding a DB from the start? How are you going to do it, what parameters are you going to use to shard?

3) NoSql DBs are good for unstructured data but Nairaland's data is structured. You have users, posts, comments and messages.
A user can have many posts, comments, messages (PM).
Posts, Comments and Messages belong to a user. This is classical SQL with makes RDBMS the obvious choice.


Examples of companies that have gone the route of microservices only to go back to monoliths.

https://segment.com/blog/goodbye-microservices/
https://aletheia.medium.com/istio-back-to-monolith-and-you-88dd3bd23265

Always remember premature optimization is the route of all evils

Beware of hype driven development... Just because big company X is doing something doesn't mean you have to do it.
The original question assumed 1k RPS and you can configure nginx to handle close to 500k RPS.

ibawon:

As my oga don validate, now I can patronise
But no be pass mark oo

Henrymorre:
Why 20 logistics? are they the one flying the plane?

Owodiran1:
Trust :98%
Communication:56%
Logistics 79%
Logistics at times 45%
Logistics generally 67%
Customer relationship 86%
.... There is room for improvement......
General remark is satisfactory. But your communication needs to be attended to. You need alot of improvement in that area.

SilverG33k:


Database sharding how did I miss that... Excellent point there, very necessary, why would the DB be encrypted tho? Or what part of the DB needs to be encrypted, please share, because I am just considering the speed and complexity

404Dev:
[s]bodmas is for mathematics. In javascript and programming operations move from left to right so its is 9-4 = 5 then +1 which is 6[/s]

vinceyinnovation:
NICE.

But I usually desire to know, what are the advantages of learning to code up and down when there are ready made sites to drag and drop and do what you want?

or any advantages of learning programming codes over drag and drop.

I ventured into learning HTML, CSS, JavaScript but gave up on the way since I discovered WordPress, wix etc as short cut to web and app building.

Any explanations?