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Does anyone know what kind of architecture Tumblr uses to serve up that traffic?

by byoung2 16y ago

sync 16y ago
Squid static page caching helps them a lot, I'm sure. S3 for image serving. Backend is written in PHP, IIRC.
- arnorhs 16y ago
  IIRC? What's that?
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  - aaronz3 16y ago
    if I recall correctly
    - oziumjinx 16y ago
      If i rewind correctly
  - chopsueyar 16y ago
    If I remember correctly.
  - mishmash 16y ago
    Urban Dictionary is a pretty good site for looking things like this up. (possibly NSFW for some..) http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=iirc http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=iirc
  - mkramlich 16y ago
    nothing personal but i downvote any question that could have been answered quickly by the asker themselves if they took a moment to Google.
    - arnorhs 16y ago
      That's what I usually do as well, however: DDG: http://duckduckgo.com/?q=iirc http://duckduckgo.com/?q=iirc Gives me an IRC server written in Java - which didn't expect to be of use for Tumblr; Interactive Illinois Report Card which doesn't make any sense. I also checked google.. typed in define:IIRC and then I actually got the result of "if i remember correctly", but by then my brain had become so sure that it was some sort of technology that I dismissed that result right away. Well, you can call me stupid or a bad researcher, but it was an honest question which was asked after I had honestly tried to find the answer to in another manner.
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      - patrickaljord 16y ago
        You should just use google, it finds better results than DDG most of the time for me at least: http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&client=ubuntu&channel=cs&ie=UTF-8&q=IIRC&qscrl=1 http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&client=ubun...
        arnorhs 16y ago
        Yes it does. And I find myself re-searching in Google about 30% of the time. But for semi-common search terms you get the result right there on the page, instead of having to click through to another page - and sometime something interesting even pops up. But I also want to give another search engine a shot and since it's hard to get people to switch engines, I figured I didn't want to be like the old guy from Frasier who always needs to have his ugly-ass chair just because his brain is so used to it.

Does anyone know what kind of architecture Tumblr uses to serve up that traffic?

by byoung2 16y ago

Does anyone know what kind of architecture Tumblr uses to serve up that traffic?

sync 16y ago

Squid static page caching helps them a lot, I'm sure. S3 for image serving. Backend is written in PHP, IIRC.

arnorhs 16y ago
IIRC? What's that?
- deleted 16y ago
  [deleted]
- aaronz3 16y ago
  if I recall correctly
  - oziumjinx 16y ago
    If i rewind correctly
- chopsueyar 16y ago
  If I remember correctly.
- mishmash 16y ago
  Urban Dictionary is a pretty good site for looking things like this up. (possibly NSFW for some..) http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=iirc http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=iirc
- mkramlich 16y ago
  nothing personal but i downvote any question that could have been answered quickly by the asker themselves if they took a moment to Google.
  - arnorhs 16y ago
    That's what I usually do as well, however: DDG: http://duckduckgo.com/?q=iirc http://duckduckgo.com/?q=iirc Gives me an IRC server written in Java - which didn't expect to be of use for Tumblr; Interactive Illinois Report Card which doesn't make any sense. I also checked google.. typed in define:IIRC and then I actually got the result of "if i remember correctly", but by then my brain had become so sure that it was some sort of technology that I dismissed that result right away. Well, you can call me stupid or a bad researcher, but it was an honest question which was asked after I had honestly tried to find the answer to in another manner.
    - deleted 16y ago
      [deleted]
    - patrickaljord 16y ago
      You should just use google, it finds better results than DDG most of the time for me at least: http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&client=ubuntu&channel=cs&ie=UTF-8&q=IIRC&qscrl=1 http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&client=ubun...
      - arnorhs 16y ago
        Yes it does. And I find myself re-searching in Google about 30% of the time. But for semi-common search terms you get the result right there on the page, instead of having to click through to another page - and sometime something interesting even pops up. But I also want to give another search engine a shot and since it's hard to get people to switch engines, I figured I didn't want to be like the old guy from Frasier who always needs to have his ugly-ass chair just because his brain is so used to it.