Frontend Masters Boost RSS Feed https://frontendmasters.com/blog Helping Your Journey to Senior Developer Tue, 06 Aug 2024 14:06:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.1 225069128 Scaling One Million Checkboxes https://frontendmasters.com/blog/scaling-one-million-checkboxes/ https://frontendmasters.com/blog/scaling-one-million-checkboxes/#respond Tue, 06 Aug 2024 14:06:37 +0000 https://frontendmasters.com/blog/?p=3386 Nolen Royalty made a website (now turned off) with a million checkboxes on it which was realtime for everyone viewing it. Users can check (or uncheck) a checkbox and that is persisted to a datastore and propagated to all visitors instantly. This, as it turns out, is a non-trivial task if you want it to run well, handle scale, and not cost a ton of money.

I’m posting this because if reading this kind of thing is interesting and kind of thrilling for you, a career in DevOps is probably not a bad idea for you.

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