Re:We Don’t Use Docker
by silvestrov on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @07:06AM
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The amaziness is that the leadership allows it to be simple.
This is such a great competitive advantage.
Compare this to a leadership that thinks you absolutely must use Akamai for your 50 req/secs webserver. You end up with tons of complexity for no reason.
Fair enough. Though not too surprising still, considering the original leadership of the company, one of whom (Joel Spolsky) is still on the board of directors. Having said that, the board's 5:4 VC-to-non-VC ratio looks pretty scary to me. But this is a different story ...
Re:We Don’t Use Docker
by mtberatwork on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @08:13AM
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SO is a bit more complicated than returning a single character in a response. You can achieve high throughput with just about anything these days if you aren't doing any "work" on the server. 300-500 reqs/second is impressive for a web site/application with real-world traffic.
I don't find it amazing at all. Functionality-wise, StackOverflow is a very simple Web application. Moreover, SO's range of 300-500 requests per second is not a mind-blowing load. Even in 2014, a powerful enough single physical server (running a Java application) was able to handle 1M requests per second[1]. A bit later, in 2017, similar performance has been demonstrated on a single AWS EC2 instance, using Python (and a blazingly-fast HTTP-focused micro-framework Japronto), which is typically not considered a high-performance option for Web applications[2].
[1] https://www.techempower.com/blog/2014/03/04/one-million-http...
[2] https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/million-requests-per-secon...