I have been experimenting with Solid Pods for managing personal data and syncing across different platforms but I’ve encountered performance issues when handling larger datasets.
It seems that syncing can be slower than expected; especially when connecting with multiple apps. I am wondering if there are any particular configurations or tools that could improve syncing times.
Additionally; I am interested in knowing if others have optimized their Pods to handle concurrent requests better. Any specific techniques that have worked well for speeding up the overall performance would be greatly appreciated. Checked https://solidproject.org/for-developers#hosted-pod-services-mlops documentation guide for reference .
Finally; it would be helpful to hear from those who have encountered similar performance bottlenecks in their personal use cases. Whether it’s about data transfer, app integration / synchronization, any insights on improving performance for personal Solid Pod setups would be incredibly valuable.
The idea is that “personal datasets” should be small enough that there shouldn’t be any performance issues… But of course, then in practice there are many reasons why you could be facing some issues.
I think the two main reasons why this could happen is that the application you’re using is not optimized (and thus it’s the app that is slow, not the POD), or the POD is not optimized (the first versions of NSS for example had a bug that made it very slow). In any case, can you share more about your use-case? Which apps are you using? And which POD provider?
But it’s also true that Solid is inherently slower than using SQL, and the spec still needs to evolve with things that would aid performance like pagination or batch requests. Specially depending how the data is modeled, and if it sits across many documents. The way I’ve found to improve this, is to rely heavily on client-side caching in my apps (even going as far as making them local-first). But I can’t recall anything you can change in the PODs themselves.
Checked https://solidproject.org/for-developers#hosted-pod-services-mlops documentation guide for reference .