Description: I'm probably wrong, but here's my thoughts on things.
Redis is a great tool, it powers some of the largest websites in the world. MongoDB too, is likewise very popular and useful.
I maintain fnbr.co , a Fortnite cosmetics directory. It has a very popular feature: the randomiser . Here people can choose a random outfit from all available items. Up until recently, this used to send queries to Mongo which worked ok, but I wanted to improve the performance both on the backend and latency to… Continue reading → Don't forget Australia! Scaling website out to other continents In my previous blog post about fnbr.co - a Fortnite cosmetics directory for which my job is to make sure the site is
For the last few months I have been maintaining fnbr.co , a Fortnite cosmetics directory. My job has been to make sure it stays online, responds fast and update the backend code when needed, ironically I have never actually played Fortnite, so I couldn't tell you why or what people go on fnbr.co for, but trust me they do...