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I don't understand. Why would you make everything in-house especially for site like Ok-Cupid which is not exactly used to power rocket engines.
by 31reasons 12y ago
I don't understand. Why would you make everything in-house especially for site like Ok-Cupid which is not exactly used to power rocket engines.
- logicchains 12y agoThey did a blog post on it that I can't find right now. Essentially, they made it quite a while ago (2002? I don't recall exactly), and all other options were too slow. Their backend apparently has to do a lot of work calculating match scores when users search.
- logicchains 12y agoFound a post by one of the developers describing the decision in some detail: http://www.brightjourney.com/q/okcupid-write-web-server http://www.brightjourney.com/q/okcupid-write-web-server They've also open sourced their server: https://github.com/okws/okws https://github.com/okws/okws
- jacquesm 12y agoThey were in much the same boat as I was back then: whatever you could install out of the box was simply too slow. Inefficiency would have caused us to die on hosting costs so we had to build our own webserver and so on. It's gotten a lot easier over the last decade and a half to build a performant website. If Ok-Cupid were started today I highly doubt they would do that the same way. But given when they did start it I figure they literally did not have a choice.