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Heh, good luck doing this for HN. You might say "Arc," but it's been modified for a decade. I wonder if the mods would ever be interested in being interviewed
by sillysaurus3 9y ago
Heh, good luck doing this for HN. You might say "Arc," but it's been modified for a decade.
I wonder if the mods would ever be interested in being interviewed or talking about some of the tech. The last bit of Arc info we got was https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11240681 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11240681, which was awesome.
It's pretty unique. I don't think any other large website in the world has written their own stack from top to bottom. Even Facebook uses php.
- statictype 9y agoThat link was pretty interesting. Having to explicitly declare thread local access is a clever hack. I also wonder what database they use (if any). Did they also build their own http stack?
- sillysaurus3 9y agoThey use in-memory hash tables, which works since the whole site can be in memory. Originally they did build their own http stack but switched to nginx for a reverse proxy. On the other hand I'm not sure how much they lean on nginx's facilities.