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Edit: I was too quick to judge your post. The article is indeed just about serving content, not about why their results are fast.
by thdrdt 6y ago
Edit: I was too quick to judge your post. The article is indeed just about serving content, not about why their results are fast.
- nevir 6y agoBy doing all the calculation in memory. Disk is too slow
- anthony_r 6y agoThere's also flash, which is also pretty fast, and fits nicely between magnetic and RAM. Here's a handy rule of thumb about relative costs: the cost of a byte on magnetic_disk:flash:ram is about 1:10:100. I.e. the cost increases 10x when you go to the next level.
- sushshshsh 6y agoLots of servers and wires and things stored in RAM long before you ever ask for them basically
- TekMol 6y agoThe article is not about how they come up with the results. Only about how they deliver the page. The article compares the speed to other websites like nike.com which have nothing to do with a search engine.
- anthony_r 6y agoThis reminds me of that joke video about replacing MongoDB with /dev/null. Look at the write speeds! /dev/null is web scale! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs