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Two apps one process

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108Score · 7d
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Trending history

Two apps one process was first seen on Lobsters · Hottest on Nov 9, 2026. Since then it has appeared in 46 checks on 2 different days. Its best position was #14 of 25, reached on Nov 10, 06:51 UTC. It is #21 right now, climbing from #24 to #21 over the last 6 checks.

Rank history

Position on Lobsters · Hottest at every check (lower is better).

#1#9#17#25 22:2103:5809:3615:1320:51 Nov 9, 22:21 UTC · #19Nov 9, 22:51 UTC · #19Nov 9, 23:21 UTC · #19Nov 9, 23:51 UTC · #20Nov 10, 00:21 UTC · #20Nov 10, 00:51 UTC · #20Nov 10, 01:21 UTC · #18Nov 10, 01:51 UTC · #18Nov 10, 02:21 UTC · #19Nov 10, 02:51 UTC · #19Nov 10, 03:21 UTC · #20Nov 10, 03:51 UTC · #20Nov 10, 04:21 UTC · #18Nov 10, 04:51 UTC · #18Nov 10, 05:21 UTC · #19Nov 10, 05:51 UTC · #19Nov 10, 06:21 UTC · #16Nov 10, 06:51 UTC · #14Nov 10, 07:21 UTC · #14Nov 10, 07:51 UTC · #14Nov 10, 08:21 UTC · #15Nov 10, 08:51 UTC · #15Nov 10, 09:21 UTC · #16Nov 10, 09:51 UTC · #17Nov 10, 10:21 UTC · #15Nov 10, 10:51 UTC · #14Nov 10, 11:21 UTC · #15Nov 10, 11:51 UTC · #17Nov 10, 12:21 UTC · #18Nov 10, 12:51 UTC · #16Nov 10, 13:21 UTC · #17Nov 10, 13:51 UTC · #18Nov 10, 14:21 UTC · #18Nov 10, 14:51 UTC · #20Nov 10, 15:21 UTC · #20Nov 10, 15:51 UTC · #21Nov 10, 16:21 UTC · #22Nov 10, 16:51 UTC · #21Nov 10, 17:21 UTC · #24Nov 10, 17:51 UTC · #24Nov 10, 18:21 UTC · #24Nov 10, 18:51 UTC · #25Nov 10, 19:21 UTC · #24Nov 10, 19:51 UTC · #20Nov 10, 20:21 UTC · #20Nov 10, 20:51 UTC · #21

Last 14 days

Best rank per day (UTC).

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Metric history

▲ as reported by Lobsters.

0257 22:2103:5809:3615:1320:51 Nov 9, 22:21 UTC · 1Nov 9, 22:51 UTC · 1Nov 9, 23:21 UTC · 1Nov 9, 23:51 UTC · 1Nov 10, 00:21 UTC · 1Nov 10, 00:51 UTC · 1Nov 10, 01:21 UTC · 2Nov 10, 01:51 UTC · 2Nov 10, 02:21 UTC · 2Nov 10, 02:51 UTC · 2Nov 10, 03:21 UTC · 2Nov 10, 03:51 UTC · 2Nov 10, 04:21 UTC · 3Nov 10, 04:51 UTC · 3Nov 10, 05:21 UTC · 3Nov 10, 05:51 UTC · 3Nov 10, 06:21 UTC · 3Nov 10, 06:51 UTC · 3Nov 10, 07:21 UTC · 3Nov 10, 07:51 UTC · 3Nov 10, 08:21 UTC · 3Nov 10, 08:51 UTC · 3Nov 10, 09:21 UTC · 3Nov 10, 09:51 UTC · 3Nov 10, 10:21 UTC · 3Nov 10, 10:51 UTC · 3Nov 10, 11:21 UTC · 3Nov 10, 11:51 UTC · 3Nov 10, 12:21 UTC · 3Nov 10, 12:51 UTC · 4Nov 10, 13:21 UTC · 4Nov 10, 13:51 UTC · 4Nov 10, 14:21 UTC · 4Nov 10, 14:51 UTC · 4Nov 10, 15:21 UTC · 4Nov 10, 15:51 UTC · 4Nov 10, 16:21 UTC · 5Nov 10, 16:51 UTC · 4Nov 10, 17:21 UTC · 4Nov 10, 17:51 UTC · 4Nov 10, 18:21 UTC · 5Nov 10, 18:51 UTC · 5Nov 10, 19:21 UTC · 5Nov 10, 19:51 UTC · 7Nov 10, 20:21 UTC · 7Nov 10, 20:51 UTC · 7

From the discussion

A few top-level comments from Lobsters, shortened. Read the full thread on Lobsters.

This article would really benefit from _Some numbers_. As it is, it advocates for adding constraints, significantly reducing isolation between web servers and complicating deployment, all without presenting any concrete benefits, which are likely to be borderline irrelevant for most apps and servers.

When did an app (short for "application") become "a domain, a database and some routes?" (Me looks at Photoshop running locally on my computer ... )

So currently. It can handle 1000+ concurrent users per core at 10FPS (so 10k SSE events per second) generating 3mb of html uncompress per user (most apps don't have 300kb html per page). Each connection has a zstd compressor with 512kb window. So small changes result to 14-30bytes over the wire. Each render for each…

Questions

Is Two apps one process trending on Lobsters right now?

Yes. As of Nov 10, 20:51 UTC it is #21, climbing from #24 to #21 over the last 6 checks.

What is the highest rank Two apps one process reached?

#14 on Lobsters · Hottest, on Nov 10, 06:51 UTC. Trendoday checks this list every 30 minutes.

How long has Two apps one process been trending?

It was first seen on Nov 9, 2026 and has been on the list on 2 days (46 checks) since.