Infra stack: from AWS to on-prem. AWS was becoming too costly, so Bluesky moved over to dedicated data centers and bare-metal machines.

That's not something you read every day.

"Building Bluesky: a Distributed Social Network (Real-World Engineering Challenges)".
Gergely Orosz and Elin Nilsson in The Pragmatic Engineer.
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.
« Back to the activity feed
« Back to the microblog feed