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Re: Youporn.com is now a 100% Redis Site

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Post by arethuza » Thu, Feb 16, 2012, 10:16 AM UTC

jwr wrote: post #15

RandallBrown wrote: post #12

For some reason I always imagine porn sites to be run by guys in cheap suits and lots of hair gel. Then I realize that in order to run a site with the kind of traffic that some of them have, you really need to have some decent engineers on staff.

You'd be surprised if you went to meetings with porn business companies in Japan. Stylish offices, elegant suits, great manners, no hint of actual porn anywhere. In fact, you could easily confuse the office with an investment bank.

I once had a surreal meeting with a hotel chain where they mentioned they had detailed management reports on stuff like the average time films are watched for and that they had a graph showing how long porn movies are watched for.

This was all being discussed in the context of a fairly formal business meeting.

Re: Youporn.com is now a 100% Redis Site

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Post by Mikushi » Thu, Feb 16, 2012, 10:18 AM UTC

rplnt wrote: post #18

RandallBrown wrote: post #12

For some reason I always imagine porn sites to be run by guys in cheap suits and lots of hair gel. Then I realize that in order to run a site with the kind of traffic that some of them have, you really need to have some decent engineers on staff.

Some time ago I've read an IAmA on reddit with staff member of some big porn portal. It was quite interesting but I don't remember what porn site it was and don't want to blindly trying to google it as I'm at work. Writing this in case anyone knows and would post it here :)

I did this IAmA couple month back : http://en.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/kf4be/nsfw_iama_former_...

And i am happy that my months of lobbying for Redis at the office paid :D

Re: Youporn.com is now a 100% Redis Site

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Feb 16, 2012, 10:21 AM UTC

rplnt wrote: post #18

RandallBrown wrote: post #12

For some reason I always imagine porn sites to be run by guys in cheap suits and lots of hair gel. Then I realize that in order to run a site with the kind of traffic that some of them have, you really need to have some decent engineers on staff.

Some time ago I've read an IAmA on reddit with staff member of some big porn portal. It was quite interesting but I don't remember what porn site it was and don't want to blindly trying to google it as I'm at work. Writing this in case anyone knows and would post it here :)

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Re: Youporn.com is now a 100% Redis Site

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Post by clu3 » Thu, Feb 16, 2012, 10:21 AM UTC

RandallBrown wrote: post #12

For some reason I always imagine porn sites to be run by guys in cheap suits and lots of hair gel. Then I realize that in order to run a site with the kind of traffic that some of them have, you really need to have some decent engineers on staff.

First off, I am not saying that youporn guys are not decent but IMHO, people shouldn't get too excited about this.

Youporn is somewhat quite a simple site I'd imagine. It's just categorized videos with a bunch of stats (views, related video...), and users. There's almost no social interaction between users (i've just registered an account just to confirm that).

That's a very clear (and good) reason why 100% redis suits for this website, apart from the goodness of redis like sorted sets are perfect for the "top rated" or "being watched" sections

Imagine the site now wants to add a little bit of social interaction, like allowing users to post video, follow each others... I'd say 100% redis wouldn't work any more

Re: Youporn.com is now a 100% Redis Site

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Post by Mikushi » Thu, Feb 16, 2012, 10:22 AM UTC

antirez wrote: post #2

That's porn for database geeks: 100 million pageviews per day, 300k requests per second against Redis. The way they use MySQL is also interesting IMHO: they populate a relational database in order to be able to build new indexes in the Redis side, using the relational DB for the stuff it is best at, generating new "views" of the data easily. (Relational DBs are also good to do a zillion more things of course.)

Yep, i've been a Redis lobbyist for over a year at this company (i use to be the Lead Software Engineer on Youporn/Pornhub), and i'm really happy to see them using it and using it properly.

Re: Youporn.com is now a 100% Redis Site

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Post by raphman » Thu, Feb 16, 2012, 10:26 AM UTC

clu3 wrote: post #24

RandallBrown wrote: post #12

For some reason I always imagine porn sites to be run by guys in cheap suits and lots of hair gel. Then I realize that in order to run a site with the kind of traffic that some of them have, you really need to have some decent engineers on staff.

First off, I am not saying that youporn guys are not decent but IMHO, people shouldn't get too excited about this. Youporn is somewhat quite a simple site I'd imagine. It's just categorized videos with a bunch of stats (views, related video...), and users. There's almost no social interaction between users (i've just registered an account just to confirm that). That's a very clear (and good) reason why 100% redis sui…

Imagine the site now wants to add a little bit of social interaction, like allowing users to post video

As far as I know, Youporn is all about users posting videos (whereby amateur porn is probably only a small part of all uploads, I guess)

Re: Youporn.com is now a 100% Redis Site

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Post by Iroiso » Thu, Feb 16, 2012, 10:34 AM UTC

mvzink wrote: post #9

You know what this means? Salvatore Sanfilippo could be executed if he visits Iran.

Absolutely... Sucks right..

Re: Youporn.com is now a 100% Redis Site

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Post by gaius » Thu, Feb 16, 2012, 10:40 AM UTC

pellias wrote: post #10

badboy wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You know your software is successful when it's used by porn sites :D

I was afraid to see what youporn is (at work now), so i guess it is really a porn site.

The online porn industry were the first people to really deal with scalability (of managing and serving web content, anyway), the first people to deal with online payments, the first people to come under really heavy, sustained hacking attempts, etc. Don't underestimate how much of what you take for granted technologically in 2012, they pioneered in the mid-90s.

Re: Youporn.com is now a 100% Redis Site

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Post by StavrosK » Thu, Feb 16, 2012, 10:41 AM UTC

antirez wrote: post #2

That's porn for database geeks: 100 million pageviews per day, 300k requests per second against Redis. The way they use MySQL is also interesting IMHO: they populate a relational database in order to be able to build new indexes in the Redis side, using the relational DB for the stuff it is best at, generating new "views" of the data easily. (Relational DBs are also good to do a zillion more things of course.)

300k requests/sec? Surely that can't be on a single Redis server, is it? Is Redis cluster out yet, or did they implement their own?

Re: Youporn.com is now a 100% Redis Site

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Post by asto » Thu, Feb 16, 2012, 10:51 AM UTC

clu3 wrote: post #24

RandallBrown wrote: post #12

For some reason I always imagine porn sites to be run by guys in cheap suits and lots of hair gel. Then I realize that in order to run a site with the kind of traffic that some of them have, you really need to have some decent engineers on staff.

First off, I am not saying that youporn guys are not decent but IMHO, people shouldn't get too excited about this. Youporn is somewhat quite a simple site I'd imagine. It's just categorized videos with a bunch of stats (views, related video...), and users. There's almost no social interaction between users (i've just registered an account just to confirm that). That's a very clear (and good) reason why 100% redis sui…

Imagine the site now wants to add a little bit of social interaction, like allowing users to post video, follow each others

Follow each other? I'm not sure you know what the point of a porn website is.