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Of course, but I seem to recall pg writing at some point that one of the goals of HN being to prove that "slow" languages can scale using caching. I assume, th
by j_baker 16y ago
Of course, but I seem to recall pg writing at some point that one of the goals of HN being to prove that "slow" languages can scale using caching. I assume, therefore, that he already has caching of some kind in place for those things. If varnish isn't going to save an access to the server (which seems to be the primary thing that's slowing things down), what value is varnish providing above what pg already has in place?
- danudey 16y agoThe requests won't queue up as badly because the server will be able to clean out 'simple' requests in a much lower time than generating much larger pages. They won't queue up as much because the requests take less time to handle, so they can be cleared out faster than they come in (compared to larger requests that queue up faster than they can be handled).