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RE: Steemit Update
Steemit Inc.'s API & infrastructure costs are in the millions of dollars per year.
This is insane and I guarantee you it's due to massive inefficiency. No website with this level of interaction costs that much. Yes -- we need to improve second layer (and primary layer) solutions to take the load off actual steem machines, but it's really not that hard.
The problem is the high cost of a single node, and the fact you need lots for scalability and redundancy, then you need a few that do nothing but create state files for the active ones and you need backups and staging ones. It adds up quickly.
It would be far Simpler if it was just a typical database.
Not even. The problem is poor first and second layer solutions on top of a full node.
Yeah, full nodes also suck. A lot. But the whole stack is worse.
No Arguments here. I hope this crypto drought encourages some good innovation that handles this. Sometimes loss is required to kickstart innovation.
Agreed - though maybe it depends on where the line is drawn around what is and isn't classed as infrastructure.. Or maybe someone is misleading ned.