mranney

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   by mranney 10y ago

   Scaling the traffic is not the issue. Scaling the team and the product feature release rate is the primary driver.
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   by mranney 10y ago

   The Netflix stack has a lot of assumptions about Java, and most of Uber is written in languages other than Java.
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   by mranney 10y ago

   Our number is closer to 1,700 now, but yes this means 1,700 distinct applications. Each application has many instances, some have thousands of instances.
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   by mranney 10y ago

   Uber runs a lot of databases in production. We stopped using Postgres a while ago for new applications that talk SQL, and this article explains some of the reasoning. We still have many applications that talk directly to MySQL, and we still
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   by mranney 14y ago

   Note that this message is almost a year old now. The issue has been addressed by the node and V8 teams.
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   by mranney 16y ago

   We had built an event-based server in raw Python using epoll. It was fine, and Python is a great language. In my testing with a very early version of node, I found that node was between 4 and 10 times faster than Python.