I mean, I love what it says about the insanity of some of the tech stacks that we run these days.
The potato with multiple eyes works to serve one of the more important and trafficked properties on the Internet.
The potato with multiple eyes works to serve one of the more important and trafficked properties on the Internet.
I like HN, but it's really only important within a very niche subset of the Internet, and it also doesn't have much traffic. There's like a single post submitted every two minutes. That's not much.
https://www.reddit.com/r/TheoryOfReddit/comments/s2dvr4/the_...
Nonetheless, i suspect that HN probably is quite efficient, just based on what I know about dang. Even so, the parent claim was that it was popular and important, not that it was efficient