Re:Disqus: Scaling the World’s Largest Django Application
by thedz on Tuesday February 22, 2011 @01:21PM
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Varnish wasn't in production at that point. We're testing/using Varnish now for some things. It definitely is helping.
In the general caching front though, I want to note though that Disqus is particularly hard to cache -- there's a very long tail leading to relatively a high miss:hit ratio per pound of caching.
In the general caching front though, I want to note though that Disqus is particularly hard to cache -- there's a very long tail leading to relatively a high miss:hit ratio per pound of caching.