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Since this is on top of HN now, you'll get hit by the crowd. You might want to implement torrent support too, so you won't get hit that hard.
by unnouinceput 4y ago
Since this is on top of HN now, you'll get hit by the crowd. You might want to implement torrent support too, so you won't get hit that hard.
- m463 4y agoit requires an email address/login so it won't be hit that hard. (no disrespect intended)
- acabal 4y agoWe've been front paged before without problems :) See https://alexcabal.com/posts/standard-ebooks-and-classic-web-tech https://alexcabal.com/posts/standard-ebooks-and-classic-web-... (Though that article is now out of date, as we now have a database running that handles things like patron registration, though it still doesn't index ebooks.)
- Aeolun 4y agoThis web stack sounds hopelessly anachronistic. If you’d just use a modern stack you could serve 10x less requests with more hardware.
- irrational 4y agoYou had me in the first half ;-)
- zolland 4y agoSounds pretty far from hopeless to me
- irrational 4y agoClosely read the second half again.
- sk0g 4y agoSo would you say they are just not web scale yet?! They seem to be serving millions of books per month on a cheap VM. For once a smaller website didn't crash upon hitting the front page, so I don't really see any problems here.
- _carbyau_ 4y agoRead the comment again, you brain may have made automatic corrections - as mine did upon first read. :-) There is more than a little cynicism there.
- sk0g 4y agoOh you're right, my bad! Definitely glazed over good chunks of the comment because I've seen similar takes without the sarcasm ad nauseam. I did read anachronistic as antagonistic (?) and less as more. Brain auto-correct may just be worse than the phone keyboard one!
- tambourine_man 4y agoThe sarcasm almost flew right past me.
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- baq 4y agoI love the old hattedness of this comment. Aeolun must have been around and seen things.
- tambourine_man 4y agoGod, I loved this article. I kept nodding to the point of almost exclaiming agreement out loud. It’s rare to see some good sense in this industry, which is almost completely fashion and hype/novelty driven, despite supposedly being a technical field.
- tigerlily 4y ago> For example, once you start with AWS and its eldritch coterie of inscrutable services Ohh dang this is good prose, and a great read to boot. Thank you!