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Disqus wouldn't fit into 1TB of memory as a denormalized data set. It doesnt even fit (indexed, at least) into 1TB of memory as a normalized data set. At the
by zeeg 14y ago
Disqus wouldn't fit into 1TB of memory as a denormalized data set.
It doesnt even fit (indexed, at least) into 1TB of memory as a normalized data set.
At the scale we're at, you're required to make tradeoffs and come up with less than standard solutions to problems. Our solution, as many others have done before us, is to shard datasets (both Redis and SQL).
- recuter 14y agoCongrats on the growth, that's a lot of comments! What I really want to know is how you guys solved being google bot friendly -- I have a fogy memory of a blog post or HN comment from around the time of the new version coming out that said there was something interesting that will be shared about that in the future.
- zeeg 14y agoAll I can really say (not being on the Google side of things) is: iframes