https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2_BqkKTbD8
Article
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TigerBeetle financial DB demo: handling trillion-scale transactions
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Presenter Joran Greef argues for single beefy server over distributed complexity
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Introduces ‘diagonal scaling’ as alternative to industry-standard decoupling
Discussion
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One commenter challenged diagonal scaling as equivalent to the decoupling it criticizes
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Production user reported difficulty with streaming backup architecture
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Commenter summarized bluntly: buy one beefy server instead of Kubernetes
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