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[1925.56 --> 1931.08] And if you want to spin up an extra work or anything like that, like, it's just a mess.
[1931.16 --> 1932.72] And I really hate that way of doing things.
[1932.80 --> 1936.20] And the Unify controller and Plex is kind of the same, right?
[1936.24 --> 1938.30] It has a database built into it.
[1938.30 --> 1947.42] And actually, if you're thinking about it, it would be nice if Plex had a separate database container that lives somewhere else that I could back up and version independently of Plex itself.
[1947.42 --> 1961.46] And that's one of the things I liked about Plausible is that because it has so many containers, you've got that queuing engine, the click house thing I talked about that operates in a similar kind of space to Redis that basically takes all the requests in in real time.
[1961.78 --> 1963.96] Its only job is to listen and receive stuff.
[1964.52 --> 1968.80] And then Plausible has workers that goes and processes those requests in real time.
[1968.80 --> 1974.04] Now, a poorly architected application would only have one container doing that.
[1974.18 --> 1977.86] And it would ingest all of that stuff into the primary container.
[1978.22 --> 1984.10] And then when that queue or that buffer or whatever it is gets full, the container would start to slow down.
[1984.20 --> 1985.28] It might have a memory leak.
[1985.32 --> 1986.10] It might crash.
[1986.28 --> 1987.38] All that kind of stuff.
[1987.38 --> 1994.48] But by having the queue somewhere else, you leave Plausible itself as this controlled environment.
[1994.82 --> 1998.20] And it's able to not fall into that same trap as a lot of other applications do.
[1998.76 --> 2002.10] Also, the data store being an external Postgres database.
[2002.58 --> 2003.80] I have no problem with that.
[2004.16 --> 2006.38] Yeah, no, I don't have an issue with databases being separate.
[2006.50 --> 2007.50] I just, I don't know.
[2007.78 --> 2011.66] When I start seeing that many containers, it just becomes frustrating for me to have to manage.
[2012.04 --> 2013.10] No, I get it.
[2013.16 --> 2014.52] It puts you off, doesn't it?
[2014.52 --> 2020.32] You sort of look at this thing and you go, I can grok and understand this in three seconds if it's one or two containers.
[2020.32 --> 2026.16] But if it starts to get to three or four or five or more, you're like, eh, I'll do it next time.
[2026.70 --> 2027.36] Yeah, exactly.
[2027.66 --> 2028.04] Exactly.
[2028.50 --> 2029.64] That's sort of my line too.
[2029.64 --> 2037.54] My last question on it, Alex, really is, did you notice much in terms of load time difference on the sites after you put it on there?
[2037.60 --> 2042.80] Because, you know, you toss a little bit of JavaScript in the header essentially and then you're off to the races.
[2042.80 --> 2046.40] Did you try benchmarking or at least refresh and see if it seemed any slower?
[2046.50 --> 2048.46] Because I've also experienced that.
[2048.56 --> 2053.84] I used to use a locally hosted analytics software that actually slowed the website down so we had to bail on it.
[2054.34 --> 2058.36] I personally didn't notice any difference and that's totally anecdotal.
[2058.90 --> 2066.90] But I run Privacy Badger anyway, so I don't have a lot of Google Analytics and a lot of JavaScript running anyway.
[2066.90 --> 2074.38] What I will say is on the Plausible website, you know, take this with a grain of salt, they say that their script is 45 times smaller than Google Analytics.
[2075.26 --> 2076.46] Smaller tends to be faster.
[2077.04 --> 2088.86] Yeah, and they reckon that because it's so much smaller, a site with 10,000 monthly visitors will save four and a half kilos of CO2 emissions per year simply by switching to Plausible.
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[2230.60 --> 2235.02] Alex, we've been having a few adventures.
[2235.26 --> 2236.72] Why don't you tell us a story?
[2237.04 --> 2239.28] Well, I took Brent down to my basement the other day.
[2240.40 --> 2241.84] He still has all those limbs.
[2242.02 --> 2242.48] It's OK.
[2243.28 --> 2249.44] I think they're all still intact anyway, because one of my hard drives has been dropping off the SATA bus this week.
[2249.44 --> 2251.02] I didn't know why.
[2251.48 --> 2252.94] And so we went down and took a look at this thing.
[2253.18 --> 2255.70] And I think I did this maybe two or three months ago.
[2255.78 --> 2259.34] I took the cable out and then put the cable back in.
[2259.52 --> 2262.40] And it worked perfectly for another two to three months.
[2262.54 --> 2262.74] Oh, yeah.
[2262.74 --> 2264.00] That's what I've been doing with my machine here.
[2264.24 --> 2265.50] You guys are awful.