The separate components of Jitsi make it quite clean to scale and customise though. A monolith doesn't seem superior except for the very smallest deployments where simplicity is key.
I made quite a bit of money as a freelancer at the start of covid setting up Jitsi servers for clients - it isn't easy... especially when you start to have multiple servers etc
A monolith doesn't seem superior except for the very smallest deployments
True. Galene is designed to encourage small deployments: it's a single binary that is simple enough and cheap enough so that every high school can have their own instance and not rely on an external IT team.
For large deployments, where accidental complexity is not as much of an issue, you'd most probably want to use some more complex and more flexible software.
“ I searched where the name Galene came from and learned that it is a lead-containing mineral. It would only be logical to name this side-project after another mineral. Pyrite, or a fool's gold, felt to be a good description.”
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galene is a single GO-binary afaik. Jitsi needs and XMPP-server installed.
The separate components of Jitsi make it quite clean to scale and customise though. A monolith doesn't seem superior except for the very smallest deployments where simplicity is key.
I made quite a bit of money as a freelancer at the start of covid setting up Jitsi servers for clients - it isn't easy... especially when you start to have multiple servers etc
It's true that it's complex, but the complexity is easily managed with modern tools. It fits very neatly into k8s for larger deployments, for example.
True. Galene is designed to encourage small deployments: it's a single binary that is simple enough and cheap enough so that every high school can have their own instance and not rely on an external IT team.
For large deployments, where accidental complexity is not as much of an issue, you'd most probably want to use some more complex and more flexible software.
Wait, this is written in Go? Nothing wrong with that, but why is it called Pyrite which evokes that snakey language?
So probably a play on the name of the parent project.
“ I searched where the name Galene came from and learned that it is a lead-containing mineral. It would only be logical to name this side-project after another mineral. Pyrite, or a fool's gold, felt to be a good description.”
Not to be confused with https://github.com/microsoft/pyright and dozens more smaller projects.