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Re:Hyper Performant and Hackable Code Forge Built on Open St... by kragen on Sunday December 10, 2023 @10:21PM (#38597291)
it took 3.89 seconds for me just now even though the hnhod has presumably evaporated hours ago

this post-a-comment page took 1.27 seconds, presumably in large part because i'm in argentina. but that log page took about 2.8 seconds to load just the html, so there's still a painful performance problem there that isn't related to argentina

Re:Hyper Performant and Hackable Code Forge Built on Open St... by 3np on Monday December 11, 2023 @12:17AM (#38597881)
I think the idea is rather that you would set it up on your own host. What you're mentioning could likely be alleviated by a properly configured caching reverse proxy.
Re:Hyper Performant and Hackable Code Forge Built on Open St... by kragen on Monday December 11, 2023 @01:30AM (#38598164)
maybe

a lot of backend software doesn't provide cache invalidation signals

a lot of caching reverse proxies don't support cache invalidation, or don't support it efficiently

you can't always prerender all possible views

and this is the kind of situation where a slightly out-of-date page could be a huge hassle or even cause a major outage; imagine pushing a branch to production because you thought it didn't have your latest buggy commit in it

it probably isn't going to be any faster on my own host