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We've been front paged before without problems :) See https://alexcabal.com/posts/standard-ebooks-and-classic-web-tech https://alexcabal.com/posts/standard-eboo
by acabal 4y ago
We'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(Though that article is now out of date, as we now have a database running that handles things like patron registration, though it still doesn't index ebooks.)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!