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I was really wondering if any of the FAANGs reached out to help websites like https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ https://www.worldometers.info/coronavir
by paganel 7y ago
I was really wondering if any of the FAANGs reached out to help websites like https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/, which while not that fancy cannot really be static 100%, as they update the virus numbers almost by the minute. They used to have some DB connections problems a couple of days ago and I think I also saw some 503 responses, but thankfully things have stabilised for them since then.
- yodsanklai 7y agoI'm practicing for system design interviews, I'd be very curious to have some design ideas for a site like https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/. Seems to be a good case study. Can anyone provide some hints or pointers?
- raziel2p 7y agoCronjob that re-generates the static HTML every 1 minute would work just fine for a use-case like this.
- theshrike79 7y agoIsn't that how 4chan works? They just generate static HTML every time something changes. It works because the read/write -ratio is so heavily skewed towards reads.