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Scale in what sense? I'm genuinely curious. Isn't this mostly a network/storage/memory bound problem?
by eliben 9y ago
Scale in what sense? I'm genuinely curious. Isn't this mostly a network/storage/memory bound problem?
- kuschku 9y agoBack in the day, HN was a single-core process on a single machine. Obviously, that’s an entirely different story than services distributed over clusters of hundreds of different machines.
- qb45 9y ago190 days ago still was: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12911086 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12911086 Plus caching for logged-out visitors.