tldr: vibe overengineered and badly configured platform crashes under minimal load.

500 concurrent users is not "production traffic".

Nothing to learn here, apart from: this could've been one server engine, one database, and vanillajs. Let's repeat our usual mantra before building anything: you're not building current(!) Facebook/Netflix from scratch, stop having 10+ product dependencies, 20 services and 6 different languages in your toy project.

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GroguMaster 8 hours ago | parent [-]

Fair point on the server being undersized. Stack is actually just Node

	▲	IcePic 14 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		In the 90s, people thought about the c10k problem, which is how to handle 10000 connections. In those days, this 2GB server would have been a dream to have and probably had moved the needle to 20k, 50k or whatever the limit is. You only get problems with 500 connections on a modern machine if you are really really bad at handling each request.