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Dang said they're working on it, I presume they are upgrading the hardware soon or something... (edit: in any case they are aware and it hopefully shouldn't be
by nubinetwork 3y ago
Dang said they're working on it, I presume they are upgrading the hardware soon or something... (edit: in any case they are aware and it hopefully shouldn't be an issue long term)
- silverquiet 3y agoI was under the impression that a lot of the code is single-threaded and so throwing hardware at it won't do a whole lot.
- therealdrag0 3y agoSheesh. Isn’t this the easiest type of application to just cache the reads and queue the writes, then you can scale horizontally easily.
- vsnf 3y agoHe’s also been saying that for years, so.
- OJFord 3y agoIs that a reason to believe it less? You can also see from hiring threads that it's a very small (but growing) team and that inherently it is truly being worked on.
- tutfbhuf 3y agoHence, I would conclude that he is working on it for years.
- cutemonster 3y agoMaybe they have improved performance but traffic increased even more? There was this recently: A steep rise of Hacker News in Google rankings https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39423949 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39423949
- zild3d 3y agoTraffic has probably been going up for years..
- codingdave 3y agoTraffic has been increasing for years, so a multi-year "working on it" effort is probably a good thing - it shows an ongoing effort to size the resources to the level needed at the time, and adjusting as times change.
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