%% date:: [[2023-06-21]] parent:: %% # [[Hachyderm's Kris Nova on running a Mastodon Server - Hanselminutes Podcast]] - [[Kris Nova|Kris]] finds it relaxing to "do things the hard way" and enjoy doing complicated things for the sake of enjoying herself. - Skateboarding taught Kris to "tiptoe into danger" and do dangerous things cautiously. > There's a big difference between just goofing off and science, and that's writing things down. > - Kris Nova - Mastodon's popularity forced her to solve a problem: how to improve Mastodon server without downtime. - They moved to Hetzner because they do baremetal servers at an auction price (auction servers) - They had 1TB out in one certain day - You can set up Mastodon so that it's compute intensive or memory intensive, and there are good strategies for each one. - Mastodon is written in [[Ruby]] and uses [[Sidekick]]. - Is it standard practice to run Mastodon on Kubernetes? - Kris has decided not to do so at this time, but it's a viable approach. She just wanted to understand it without the extra layer of abstraction. -