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One big server with a flat text file DB on NVME drives AFAIK.

• amiga-workbench 4y ago
  I believe the application code is single threaded due to its interpreter too.
  • TremendousJudge 4y ago
    it does run pretty slow under load though, and they have acknowledged it's due to this
    • marginalia_nu 4y ago
      HN has mutable data though. That's a much harder problem than indexing a large amount of static data like a search engine.
  • winrid 4y ago
    Not only that, but I don't think the custom datastore handles concurrent writes. One thread FTW. :)