If this was a tech demo, it tracks that they wouldn’t be using overpowered hardware. Why lug around a full server when they can just load up the software on a laptop, considering they weren’t expecting hundreds of invokes at the exact same moment.
“lug around”? the server(s) are 100% in a data center, no way this is a single computer on prem. no company, especially facebook, deploys software that way in 2025
It really depends. A local machine is guaranteed to not have issues if the general internet goes down. It’s also going to reduce latency considerably.
There are many reasons to have a dev box local to the demonstration. Just because they wouldn’t deploy it that way in production doesn’t mean they wouldn’t deploy a demo in that same way.
If this was a tech demo, it tracks that they wouldn’t be using overpowered hardware. Why lug around a full server when they can just load up the software on a laptop, considering they weren’t expecting hundreds of invokes at the exact same moment.
“lug around”? the server(s) are 100% in a data center, no way this is a single computer on prem. no company, especially facebook, deploys software that way in 2025
It really depends. A local machine is guaranteed to not have issues if the general internet goes down. It’s also going to reduce latency considerably.
There are many reasons to have a dev box local to the demonstration. Just because they wouldn’t deploy it that way in production doesn’t mean they wouldn’t deploy a demo in that same way.