Simon Willison’s Weblog

Scaling Mastodon: The Compendium (via) Hazel Weakly’s collection of notes on scaling Mastodon, covering PostgreSQL, Sidekiq, Redis, object storage and more.

Posted 29th November 2022 at 5:46 am

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