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And I recall the last time I looked at the source (when it was released with Arc), it didn't use a database either. All the data is stored as files.
A link to (possibly an old version of) the source for those interested: https://github.com/nex3/arc/blob/master/lib/news.arc
I'd love to see my median karma on my profile. Much more robust to outliers than average.
What are we supposed to do on Saturday morning?
It would be cool to see some performance "brag numbers" posted after the cutover!
30+ seconds to login is not exactly fast.
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Not just a single server, a single process on a single core (last time I asked pg at least).
And I recall the last time I looked at the source (when it was released with Arc), it didn't use a database either. All the data is stored as files.
This is just idle speculation but are there any stats on HN traffic? I have always wondered just how many folks read it, how often etc? I heard a million accounts being bandied around at one point and I cannot tell if that is excessive or not?
120k unique IPs per day. 1.3 million page views.
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And the shiny new server replacing it: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f1/Ibm_pc_51...
My guess was this: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/Com...
So compact yet so powerful.
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Why should it be? You can get a long long way by treating the filesystem as a database. The first engineers at Amazon used the same technique a lot, as do I.
Because you always end up building your own database out of flat files and that is always worse than using an existing one.