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HN is one of the simplest and inherently scalable web apps you can get. Of course it's stable.
by threeseed 5y ago
HN is one of the simplest and inherently scalable web apps you can get.
Of course it's stable.
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- krapp 5y agoHN is neither simple nor inherently scalable. Dang recently asked people to log out so he could manually deal with a thread whose traffic was slowing down the entire site[0,1]. As a framework HN has fundamental architectural flaws and scalability has always been one of them. That would never happen even on a small forum with a relational database and proper load balancing/caching etc (in other words, with all that "fancy" modern stuff HN often considers unnecessary.) [0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?shownew&id=31026659 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?shownew&id=31026659 [1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31027882 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31027882