Show HN: Orange Forum – Web 1.0 style forum written in Go

Re:Show HN: Orange Forum – Web 1.0 style forum written in Go by dullgiulio on Wednesday November 08, 2017 @09:06AM (#15652482)

If it were to scale to millions of users, caching would help.

At that point, you'd have to cache the JSON responses just the same, so the complexity of cache invalidation would be there in the exact same way.

But you would still not have the additional load and bloat on the user browser.

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Re:Show HN: Orange Forum – Web 1.0 style forum written in Go by elnygren on Thursday November 09, 2017 @06:27AM (#15661539)

You are correct; caching is always hard.

Load and bloat? Well that depends. If you're doing a realtime collaborative texteditor with a realtime chat, I just don't see how you'd get anything even remotely nice without what you call "load and bloat".

However, to return to the original topic. Which is simpler: a) creating a performant data API b) creating a performant server that handles data stuff just like a) AND all the rendering & UI stuff

Surely the latter is more complex since it has more responsibilities?

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