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There was special code in AOL's mail system to keep Steve Case's mail box index in memory all the time.
by lanstin 5y ago
There was special code in AOL's mail system to keep Steve Case's mail box index in memory all the time.
- exikyut 5y ago(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Case https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Case was CEO of AOL) That's interesting. Was this because of the volume of mail I/O, for scale/fanout-related performance reasons, or to simply keep responsiveness at p99 for that account "just because VIP"?
- lanstin 5y agoThe latter.