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Somehow disappointed by the title. This is just a list of software they use. IMHO, that's not a "stack" article in my book. >>>> The load balancing and distrib
by fasteo 11y ago
Somehow disappointed by the title. This is just a list of software they use. IMHO, that's not a "stack" article in my book.
>>>> The load balancing and distribution layer is based on custom C code and a LuaJIT framework we created called Levee. Levee is capable of servicing 40K requests per second on a single machine
Is "Leeve" open sourced ? It would be nice to see this source code and it would had been great to include some discussion on why they chose to implement this instead of using some other off-the-shelf LB solutions (like HAProxy or Openresty which are also mentioned in the article). This is the kind of things I like seeing in a "stack" article.
- skuhn 11y agoThis is pretty typical in my experience for StackShare posts. For example: http://stackshare.io/500px/how-500px-serves-up-over-500tb-of-high-res-photos http://stackshare.io/500px/how-500px-serves-up-over-500tb-of... imgix is very interested in open sourcing things we create, and there are a few smaller projects at https://github.com/imgix https://github.com/imgix now. Hopefully Levee will join them in the future, once we have reached a certain point in development.