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I personally find it hard to believe that all of LinkedIn was only running on 30 servers, and is now running on only 3. EDIT: Mobile only. Maybe the title shou

• masklinn 14y ago
  > I personally find it hard to believe that all of LinkedIn was only running on 30 servers, and is now running on only 3. I can believe it, if their caching strategy was garbage before and part of a massive rewrite was rethinking that. If you fail to use your caches, you'll pay for it. I mean it's not like LinkedIn is about split-second changes, you could probably statically generate most of it and serve it with a single nginx instance.
  • ikailan 14y ago
    Actually, we aggressively cached, which led to weird things happening. I posted a follow up about this explaining more context - I hope it gets voted up.