Re:Interview with a Pornhub web developer (2019)
by Mikushi on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @03:33PM
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> All the pages are server-side rendered
I should add that this wasn't out of optimisation, just "old-school" PHP+Html with an MVC framework to serve the rendered page.
Still can't beat that in my view.
> The most incredible part to me was the storage and delivery of the video content
That was the fun bit, I still remember the logistic of opening a new origin for the CDN back in 2010 (11 maybe?). Flying hard drives, can't beat that bandwidth.
(Former developer here as well, however from before this humans.txt was introduced)
I should add that this wasn't out of optimisation, just "old-school" PHP+Html with an MVC framework to serve the rendered page.
Still can't beat that in my view.
> The most incredible part to me was the storage and delivery of the video content
That was the fun bit, I still remember the logistic of opening a new origin for the CDN back in 2010 (11 maybe?). Flying hard drives, can't beat that bandwidth.
(Former developer here as well, however from before this humans.txt was introduced)