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> Especially since I thought one of Yesods main advantages was performance. Performance and scalability are two different things.

• polymatter 14y ago
  Well I have much to learn. But given that Haskell is easy to parallelise (compared to Ruby or Java), and compiles to very fast object code to boot, it seems like it should be able to withstand HN traffic better than the average blog that gets featured here. Its a little embarrassing because yesodweb.com is the main Yesod website, not some amateur like me hacking stuff together.
  • willismichael 14y ago
    Fair enough, I'm just assuming that even given the capability to parallelise, they probably just don't have the necessary amount of hardware provisioned to cope with HN-magnitude traffic spikes.
    • profquail 14y ago
      The site seems to be running on AWS, so you're probably right. It's loading very quickly now though so I imagine they've upgraded to a bigger instance.
    • jules 14y ago
      That's hardly an excuse given that HN itself runs on 1 core, and just a fraction of that traffic will be going through to this post.
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