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

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Post by [deleted] »

geoffw8 wrote: post #36
arethuza wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I used to work with a company who provide most of the network/software/hardware for hotels/airports/tran stations/lobbies around the world. Some very interesting insights from the hotels side of things.

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

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Post by GrumpySimon »

gaius wrote: post #28
pellias wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

It's not just now either, the porn industry was hugely influential in causing the adoption and spread of video (you know, on casette), movies and photography.

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

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Post by Uchikoma »

thomasbachem wrote: post #34
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.

The owner of YouPorn (and many others) is Fabian Thylmann, and he is actually a geek at heart: http://nymag.com/news/features/70985/index4.html (article) http://www.cnbc.com/id/45989405/Meet_the_New_King_of_Porn (photo)

I still talk about your excellent open PHP presentation in Hamburg, I'm still impressed #smallworld

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

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Post by rayhano »

thomasbachem wrote: post #34
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.

The owner of YouPorn (and many others) is Fabian Thylmann, and he is actually a geek at heart: http://nymag.com/news/features/70985/index4.html (article) http://www.cnbc.com/id/45989405/Meet_the_New_King_of_Porn (photo)

Looks like YC needs a new Request For...

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

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Post by throwaway_uporn »

Hopefully someone from YouPorn is reading this:

YouPorn totally stopped working on my Android about two weeks ago. I used to "monitor" that site daily, and it suddenly stopped working. I wouldn't doubt if it coincided with this change.

I can see "still pictures" of the videos, but can't play them. This is true for the Android Motorola Droid 2 and the Kindle Fire.

So I've had to monitor other sites since then.

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

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Post by scorpion032 »

Porn industry is generally among the first to adopt new technologies and promising architectures.

Among other things, this indicates Redis' impending adoption as a standard infrastructure component across the industry in general and as a replacement to standard databases in some of those places.

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

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Post by DavidChouinard »

geoffw8 wrote: post #36
arethuza wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I used to work with a company who provide most of the network/software/hardware for hotels/airports/tran stations/lobbies around the world. Some very interesting insights from the hotels side of things.

Care to share?
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