👓 Phở Networks, an experiment to create a singularist & truly scalable social platform | AltPlatform

Read Phở Networks, an experiment to create a singularist & truly scalable social platform by Emre Sokullu (AltPlatform)
An open source, MIT licensed project that I’ve been personally spending a lot of time on, for almost a year.

– In a nutshell, Phở Networks lets you create independent social media outlets.

– Phở Networks is singularist; because it allows you to create any form of social media, with a simple language that many sysadmins have already familiarized themselves with in the UNIX world; ACL — access-control lists. You may use Phở Networks as your blogging engine, but you can also create a whole new Facebook. Need proof? Just visit the pho-recipes Github repo.

– Phở Networks is lightning fast and massively scalable, because it takes an unorthodox approach as to how it handles data. With Phở, data is stored and served warm right off the RAM, as it is built on top of Redis. With this unconventional RAM-first design choice (in contrast to caching, which most high-scale web sites have opted into), Phở Networks won’t be cheap (for now), but it will be blazing-fast and super low-maintenance by avoiding the limitations of sharding and hard-drive friction.

I’d heard of this a while back, but never spent much time on it. Perhaps it’s time to delve in a bit to play around?