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A really interesting overview* of how Bluesky was built and scaled rapidly by a small group of people, and how it’s different from other social media platforms.

*by @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com & Elin Nilsson

newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/bluesky
A screenshot of an image in the article that contains the words “Out of the platform, into the protocol” and an illustration of a blue bird flying out of a black birdcage (both on a blank white background), towards a square image of a blue sky A screenshot of the top of the article. It says: Building Bluesky: a Distributed Social Network (Real-World Engineering Challenges) Bluesky is built by around 10 engineers, and has amassed 5 million users since publicly launching in February this year. A deep dive into novel design decisions, moving off AWS, and more. A screenshot of part of the article that says: Development principles The still-small team set up principles to ensure continuous progress: No backward steps. Ease of use, scale, and feature developer experience, can not be worse than existing social networks’. Unify app development with protocol development. Never make tech decisions in isolation from practical use cases. Don’t be precious! If an idea or design doesn’t work, just throw it out! A screenshot of part of the article that says: The biggest differences between Bluesky and other large social networks: Decentralized. Bluesky is a “decentralized social network,” meaning anyone can run their own servers. If Bluesky’s core team turned off all services today, the network would keep functioning. As such, Bluesky offers a way for users to truly own their data and services. Open source. Nearly everything about Bluesky builds is open source, and hosted on GitHub. Rapid growth. The product went from zero to 5 million users in around 12 months after announcing an invite-only beta. Small team. Bluesky was built with a small team of 3 engineers during the first year, and with 12 software engineers at the time of publication.
November 21, 2024 at 7:06 AM
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nodeland.dev
I would have to say... if you need to run benchmarks in Node.js, you should probably check out mitata.

https://www.npmjs.com/package/mitata
November 18, 2024 at 4:59 PM