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> The issue is not really the number of requests per second, probably, but the number of bytes, which they don't talk about at all in the article; reading manga
by buzer 5y ago
> The issue is not really the number of requests per second, probably, but the number of bytes, which they don't talk about at all in the article; reading manga with no ads is a pretty static kind of application, which could be satisfied amply with a web browser or even a much simpler program loading images from a filesystem directory.
I assume they are talking about their more dynamic content serving in this post (for things like search, tracking which chapters are read, new chapter listing based on what user follows etc.).
They have a custom CDN that is hosted by volunteers to serve the images for the manga pages. They provide some metrics for that at https://mangadex.network https://mangadex.network, there are also some older screenshots where they hit 3.2GB/s.
- kragen 5y agoInteresting! Thanks! It still doesn't sound like the kind of thing that would require load balancing, but maybe it was easier to write it in Python or PHP or something, and that made it so heavy that it did.