Latency of DigitalOcean Spaces vs AWS S3

WakaTime’s infra is split across DigitalOcean and AWS. We use DigitalOcean Droplets for compute resources, AWS S3 to store code stats, and DigitalOcean Spaces for backups. You can find more info on th…

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Using a disk-based Redis clone to reduce AWS S3 bill

Update 2024: We now use Apache Kvrocks because ideawu has vanished leaving SSDB unmaintaineed. Redis is an in-memory database with very high write and read speed, and a limitation that data sets can’t…

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