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Re:Imaginary Problems Are the Root of Bad Software by tyingq on Sunday June 18, 2023 @12:47PM (#36381892)
HipHop (later HHVM) was around 2010, so they scaled from 2004-2010 before that became needed. MyRocks was 2015. Wikipedia says FB was around 300 million users in 2009, then 400 million users in 2010.
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Re:Imaginary Problems Are the Root of Bad Software by fauigerzigerk on Sunday June 18, 2023 @01:07PM (#36382091)
Yes, good point. But you have to wonder what kind of engineering effort went into scaling PHP and MySQL up to the point where they decided to build a compiler and a storage engine.
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Re:Imaginary Problems Are the Root of Bad Software by rafark on Sunday June 18, 2023 @02:21PM (#36382828)
When you have half a billion users that both read and write all day, you have to optimize, no matter the tech.
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Re:Imaginary Problems Are the Root of Bad Software by fauigerzigerk on Sunday June 18, 2023 @02:39PM (#36383002)
That is undeniably true, but I do think the starting point still matters.
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Re:Imaginary Problems Are the Root of Bad Software by disgruntledphd2 on Monday June 19, 2023 @08:45AM (#36390450)
It was much, much, much cheaper than a rewrite would have been, that's why they did it.

Edit: also, in 2004 when they got started, what else could they have used?

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