The 500MB Club Challenge

What it does

Most backend benchmarks run on generous cloud boxes nobody deploys to. This one doesn't: a write-heavy telemetry service (GPS/battery/accel data) has to run — LB, 3 API replicas, storage — inside 2 CPUs and 500MB RAM total, on a real Raspberry Pi. Open, language-agnostic: fork it, implement the API, ship a Docker image, submit a PR. Scored on efficiency, capacity, tail latency, resilience, stability. Sponsored by Ardan Labs, JetBrains, GopherCon Latam. Deadline: July 26.

Open benchmark for backend languages under hard edge-hardware constraints: 2 CPUs, 500MB RAM, at least three replicas, one round-robin LB, one Pi. - The-500MB-Club/the_500mb_club_challenge

Você vai construir um serviço de ingestão e consulta de telemetria de dispositivos ( lat/lon, bateria, aceleração nos 3 eixos ). A escolha do domínio é proposital: tem write-heavy realista, leitura por janela temporal e uma rota CPU-bound para evitar que o vencedor seja só "quem faz menos coisa". A ideia é comparar runtimes de backend em hardware de borda real (Raspberry Pi), com a stack inteira limitada a 2 CPUs e 500 MB de RAM . flowchart LR Dev["📱 Mobile / ESP32 device"] subgraph Stack["2 CPUs / 500 MB"] direction TB LB{{"Load balancer :8080<br/>round-robin"}} subgraph APIs["API replicas"] direction TB A1["api-1 :8000"] A2["api-2 :8000"] A3["api-3 :8000"] end R[("Storage<br/>redis |…from github.com

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