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lol > In general the less moving parts you have in a system the more reliable, secure, efficient and cheaper the system becomes. 100% agreed. This is not my

by maxk42 5y ago

lol > In general the less moving parts you have in a system the more reliable, secure, efficient and cheaper the system becomes. 100% agreed. This is not my first high-traffic site, nor even the highest. (I built the analytics system for a an Alexa top-10 site in 2010, reaching some 30 billion writes / day off of a mere 14 small ec2 instances.) I've never seen a k8s implementation in production that was necessary. I will note that my Alexa-2k site is also a personal site (no revenue) and under constant attack. In fact we frequently suffer DDOSes that we don't even notice until reviewing the logs later because it doesn't suffer any latency under pressure.

radicalbyte 5y ago
Interesting, wouldn't mind having a chat outside of HN if you're interested (see my profile for mail). I've spent much of my career working on systems with active users from the hundreds to low thousands, but which process a huge number (50k/sec scale) jobs/tasks. It's a totally different kettle of fish, and if I'm totally honest I'm shocked at how badly "web" scales and how common these naive and super inefficient implementations are (hint: my bare-metal server from 2005 was faster than expensive cloud VMs). Recently I've worked on two high-usage systems (one of which was "handling" 30k requests/second for the first couple of week).
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- golergka 5y ago
  > I've spent much of my career working on systems with active users from the hundreds to low thousands, but which process a huge number (50k/sec scale) jobs/tasks. MMO games, by any chance?
Folcon 5y ago
Would you mind outlining your approach? Really interested to see how you think about this sort of thing =)...
- maxk42 5y ago
  My approach to what?
  - Folcon 5y ago
    To architecting a high traffic site =)...
    - Cipater 5y ago
      He posted a reply to his own comment. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28443113 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28443113
      - maxk42 5y ago
        Actually, my reply was to Folcon. HN simply doesn't allow you to reply to comments beyond a certain depth sometimes. Perhaps mods have the ability to extend this for active discussions and that's why I can reply now?
        detaro 5y ago
        it's timing based. you can always reply by going to the permalink of the comment you want to reply to.
        maxk42 5y ago
        Couldn't reply to this comment - but sure enough, the permalink gives me the option. Thank you for the info!
        detaro 5y ago
        Yeah, it's a somewhat well-meaning feature (supposed to slow down flamewars) that is extremely unintuitive
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by maxk42 5y ago

radicalbyte 5y ago

Interesting, wouldn't mind having a chat outside of HN if you're interested (see my profile for mail). I've spent much of my career working on systems with active users from the hundreds to low thousands, but which process a huge number (50k/sec scale) jobs/tasks. It's a totally different kettle of fish, and if I'm totally honest I'm shocked at how badly "web" scales and how common these naive and super inefficient implementations are (hint: my bare-metal server from 2005 was faster than expensive cloud VMs). Recently I've worked on two high-usage systems (one of which was "handling" 30k requests/second for the first couple of week).

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golergka 5y ago
> I've spent much of my career working on systems with active users from the hundreds to low thousands, but which process a huge number (50k/sec scale) jobs/tasks. MMO games, by any chance?

Folcon 5y ago

Would you mind outlining your approach? Really interested to see how you think about this sort of thing =)...

maxk42 5y ago
My approach to what?
- Folcon 5y ago
  To architecting a high traffic site =)...
  - Cipater 5y ago
    He posted a reply to his own comment. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28443113 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28443113
    - maxk42 5y ago
      Actually, my reply was to Folcon. HN simply doesn't allow you to reply to comments beyond a certain depth sometimes. Perhaps mods have the ability to extend this for active discussions and that's why I can reply now?
      - detaro 5y ago
        it's timing based. you can always reply by going to the permalink of the comment you want to reply to.
        maxk42 5y ago
        Couldn't reply to this comment - but sure enough, the permalink gives me the option. Thank you for the info!
        detaro 5y ago
        Yeah, it's a somewhat well-meaning feature (supposed to slow down flamewars) that is extremely unintuitive
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