• qweertz (they/she)@programming.dev
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      16 hours ago

      Postgres slowing factor

      I’m pretty sure one of the best optimised free/libre DBMS’s is faster than Python 💀

      Also no one know how Piefed scales, since it only has like 350 MAU

      • JackbyDev@programming.dev
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        12 hours ago

        Reread it. They’re saying “The slowest part is postgres, so even if python is slower than rust it won’t make a difference.”

        • SorteKanin@feddit.dk
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          8 hours ago

          That is, in theory. In practice, it can make a big difference. Source: Worked professionally with large services built in Python and Rust.

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            8 hours ago

            Yes, I also suspect that at a certain scale it would make a difference, but with a single Postgres database and no advanced clustering or so, the real-life performance metrics of a medium sized Lemmy instance strongly point to Postgres being the bottleneck and not the Python or Rust codebase of the rest of the software.