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I feel like I might hold the record for the most absurd AWK success story, which I hope to write up some day. I wrote the front-end for what became my highest-
by dougb5 3y ago
I feel like I might hold the record for the most absurd AWK success story, which I hope to write up some day.
I wrote the front-end for what became my highest-traffic website (RhymeZone.com) in AWK back in 1996, and it ran for 27 years with just occasional feature additions every few years, serving up to 2 million pages a day from a single medium-size EC2 instance at its peak. Even in 1996 it seemed like a bad idea to make a website in pure awk, but looking back I'm glad I did.
- j0hnyl 3y agoI would love to see the code.
- rjeli 3y agoI love rhymezone, I use it all the time! Thanks!
- maxfurman 3y agoAny chance you could release the source code some day? I'm very curious how you pulled this off!
- orhmeh09 3y agoThanks for making RhymeZone. I use it for wordplay and jokes when I'm posting.
- williamcotton 3y agoYou’ve contributed to more than one of my songs and poems! Thanks!