AMA with Barack Obama

Re:AMA with Barack Obama by bgilroy26 on Wednesday August 29, 2012 @04:31PM (#4450953)

It's a tough site to run because hundreds of thousands of people have write access to the database and reddit attempts to provide the millions of people reading the comments pages with up-to-the-fraction-of-a-second updates.

It's like running a tenth of a twitter with a 10k char limit, if twitter had 10 people on development/operations

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Re:AMA with Barack Obama by xxpor on Wednesday August 29, 2012 @05:16PM (#4451337)

>up-to-the-fraction-of-a-second updates.

I don't think that's true. I believe the comment pages are cached for 1 min.

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Re:AMA with Barack Obama by _delirium on Wednesday August 29, 2012 @05:18PM (#4451355)

I've anecdotally noticed an increase in stale pages lately as well, which I would guess is from more aggressive caching. For example, new submissions used to show up instantly, but on popular subreddits may now take a few minutes to show up on the New tab.

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Re:AMA with Barack Obama by xxpor on Wednesday August 29, 2012 @05:33PM (#4451444)

If someone really wants to figure it out:

https://github.com/reddit/reddit

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