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Hilariously, I went to edit the above comment, and HN was overloaded. Then it served me three or four 500's, AND it served me stale data in between I was piss
by chubot 3y ago
Hilariously, I went to edit the above comment, and HN was overloaded. Then it served me three or four 500's, AND it served me stale data in between
I was pissed off that I would have to type my comment again, but actually it did save it, and refreshing worked.
From what I understand Hacker News is architected more in-memory, on one big box ... Perhaps similar to the event sourcing model
(not knocking hacker news -- it's generally a very fast site, MUCH better than Reddit. Just that scaling beyond a single machine is difficult and full of gotchas )
- kaba0 3y agoStackOverflow used to run on a single (very beefy) machine also for a long time — databases make efficient use of vertical scaling, horizontal scaling is much harder. Of course, specialist systems can often do much better.