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PoC-Consortium / burstcoin-mobile

Burstcoin mobile wallet for Android and iOS https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.icewave.burstcoinwallet
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Thoughts about Load Balancing #29

Closed rico666 closed 6 years ago

rico666 commented 6 years ago

What would happen if 500 000 people downloaded the wallet and tried to use it?

Our default backend wallet would crash. Ok, they could use alternatives, but that's a hassle.

I propose the backend wallet chosen by the user should actually be a list where the mobile wallet would perform a round-robin in case a wallet would be unresponsive.

While it may not be a problem now, I believe this has to be addressed better sooner than later (if we would run into scaling problems)

rico666 commented 6 years ago

ac0v mentioned to do a load balancing not in the app, but in the DNS. I think it is an equivalent, maybe even better solution. This would mean, that e.g. https://wallet.burst.cryptoguru.org would be in fact a geographically distributed cluster of wallets. We are actually half way there already.

rico666 commented 6 years ago

Now that the cluster is operational, let them come. ;-)