(Though that article is now out of date, as we now have a database running that handles things like patron registration, though it still doesn't index ebooks.)
If you’d just use a modern stack you could serve 10x less requests with more hardware.
They seem to be serving millions of books per month on a cheap VM. For once a smaller website didn't crash upon hitting the front page, so I don't really see any problems here.
I did read anachronistic as antagonistic (?) and less as more. Brain auto-correct may just be worse than the phone keyboard one!
It’s rare to see some good sense in this industry, which is almost completely fashion and hype/novelty driven, despite supposedly being a technical field.
Ohh dang this is good prose, and a great read to boot. Thank you!