Re:How we made editing Wikipedia twice as fast
by lonnyk on Wednesday December 31, 2014 @01:11AM
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Could you describe what your own solution was?
Re:How we made editing Wikipedia twice as fast
by sbov on Wednesday December 31, 2014 @04:37PM
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It wasn't anything special. We used Java because it's what we knew, with a mix of spring and some home grown framework stuff that we've developed over the last 10 years.
MySQL over Postgres because that's what we had experience with at the time. Redis as both a cache and ephemeral store.
His machine could easily handle the traffic thrown at it, but the page load time was slow. 2 seconds at best, with all machines involved being almost 100% idle. With various common tweaks such as caching, we got it down to about 800ms. We eventually replaced it with our own solution and got it to 50ms.
Scale never entered the picture because from our testing, we had the machinery in place to handle enough traffic to be wildly profitable. The user experience at 2 second page load times was vastly different from the user experience at 50ms though.