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Ask HN: What is the architecture of HN?

• iamdanfox 12y ago
  I'm not sure if this is what you meant by 'architecture', but Paul Graham [1] describes writing the first version of HN in a dialect of Lisp called 'Arc' [2]. An old version of the code appears to be available on GitHub [3]. [1]: http://www.paulgraham.com/hackernews.html http://www.paulgraham.com/hackernews.html [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arc_(programming_language) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arc_(programming_language) [3]: https://github.com/wting/hackernews https://github.com/wting/hackernews
  • mohamedbassem 12y ago
    Something like : - http://highscalability.com/blog/2014/7/21/stackoverflow-update-560m-pageviews-a-month-25-servers-and-i.html http://highscalability.com/blog/2014/7/21/stackoverflow-upda... - https://github.com/blog/530-how-we-made-github-fast https://github.com/blog/530-how-we-made-github-fast