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It was my perception 10 years ago that HN was powered by a single threaded process with the entire post history loaded into memory (not sure how accurate this p
by pshc 5y ago
It was my perception 10 years ago that HN was powered by a single threaded process with the entire post history loaded into memory (not sure how accurate this perception was). I am curious how much it has changed.
edit: found this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16076041 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16076041
- suyash 5y agomy perception is a server located in YC's office under PG's desk ;)
- winrid 5y agoMy understandind is pretty much everything for HN requires IO to disk. The Era of NVME SSDs...
- dang 5y agoWe also have RAM. Edit: but we can't GC it fast enough. On a day like today I wonder if always going to disk mightn't be better.
- csdreamer7 5y agoHi dang, thank you for what you do. Do you (or anyone else) have an article on HN's infrastructure? Would like to read more about this. Tried to Google it but was filled with links to other people's infra on HN.
- inside65 5y agoThe original comment in the thread has that information, and it's nothing to write home about. Maybe it has improved since, but it's not like they're running a network of supercomputers.
- hedvig 5y agoAnd the glyph rendering is offloaded to the gpu, which as any good development team should know, is much faster.
- exikyut 5y agoWow, FreeBSD! Cool.