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Yeah that was my point, you can get rid of a significant portion of requests at the edge with a bloom filter, and there's no reason you have to build the bloom
by smallpipe 1y ago
Yeah that was my point, you can get rid of a significant portion of requests at the edge with a bloom filter, and there's no reason you have to build the bloom filter locally as requests come in. Instead, it can be created ahead of time, when the dataset is updated.
- Thorrez 1y agoSee my reply at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43780713 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43780713 . Also regarding "you can get rid of a significant portion of requests at the edge with a bloom filter", Troy's existing design already gets rid of a significant portion of requests at the edge. That's why he says >The response from each search was coming back so quickly that the user wasn’t sure if it was legitimately checking subsequent addresses they entered or if there was a glitch.