Re:You don’t need all that complex/expensive/distracting inf...
by mattmanser on Thursday March 11, 2021 @10:38AM
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But today, 16 years of Moore's law later, you could now have gone way, way, way, way past that.
They probably could have done most of America on a single server.
For example, even in 2009 Stack Overflow was running off two dedicated servers:
https://stackoverflow.blog/2009/01/12/new-stack-overflow-ser...
Re:You don’t need all that complex/expensive/distracting inf...
by KptMarchewa on Thursday March 11, 2021 @06:48PM
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Stack Overflow in 2009 is an example of something that's cacheable extremely well, several orders of magnitude than stuff like personalized walls for every user.
Re:You don’t need all that complex/expensive/distracting inf...
by Person5478 on Thursday March 11, 2021 @10:07AM
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IIRC, they were doing things like patching bittorrent to prefer closer IP's to pull from during their deploys. So it would roll through their network from 1 side to the other without just completely saturating the entire network.
But the point still remains, they had challenges to solve, but they were also simple, which made it possible TO solve those challenges.
No, even before the Newsfeed feature rollout of September 2006, they already had crazy complexity orchestrating multiple servers for many schools. They were only a "simple PHP+MySql" website when it was February 2004 with only Harvard students on it. Dustin said he was the one in charge of spinning up new servers for each new school and he said it was a nightmare of engineering effort.