Every major site overloaded and lots of hardware upgrades.
Sites are running multiple Docker images of Lemmy-server on the same underlying hardware.
This code change show how much of an issue having the MTA in-process is impacting things: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/3466
The client-facing API of Lemmy_server also would benefit from caching layer, that server operators could control - even if only for emergency.
random development learning, Rust code, can I get a custom logging for my ongong work to not federate votes/likes?
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/66138104/how-to-write-logs-to-multiple-destinations-conditionally-with-tracing
My instinct is to add another logging tool to log voting activity that could be distributed via dedicated log files. I know projects may not want to add another library, but this one describes what I want - low overhead: https://github.com/rbatis/fast_log