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Given its resources Reddit is weirdly brittle and has lots of downtime. Why is that?
by halotrope 5y ago
Given its resources Reddit is weirdly brittle and has lots of downtime. Why is that?
- thehappypm 5y agoPython as a backend language might be a bit of a problem for perf?
- brrrrrm 5y agoInstagram uses Python
- thehappypm 5y agoJust because Instagram overcomes a language’s perf limitations doesn’t mean it’s easy to do so.
- Mountain_Skies 5y agoThere's very little downside to them being offline. Sure, they're losing ad revenue, which is bad, but it's not like an AWS outage or Netflix going down. When Reddit blows up and takes half a day to come back online, its users just come back later. There's no mass exodus over downtime for them. As a result, they don't invest much in reliability. Things break, things get fixed, eventually.