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Re:Interview with a Pornhub web developer (2019) by tyingq on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @03:11PM (#23979540)
I've had the opposite. Where we couldn't turn logging off because the writes prevented a weird race condition that would crash the application.
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Re:Interview with a Pornhub web developer (2019) by colinmhayes on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @03:43PM (#23979840)
Lmao why use data synchronization when you can just write to disk?
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Re:Interview with a Pornhub web developer (2019) by tyingq on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @03:49PM (#23979918)
Heh. It was a bit hard to pin down, but we did eventually fix it. One of those Java super deep dependency things where the 3rd party thing at the bottom is broken. I think it was cxf.
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Re:Interview with a Pornhub web developer (2019) by throwaway894345 on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @04:11PM (#23980135)
Why write to disk when you can just sleep() sporadically?
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