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1. blanto+y2[view] [source] 2013-02-15 23:50:02
>>pg+(OP)
Does all of HN run on one single server?
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2. abstra+Y2[view] [source] 2013-02-15 23:56:06
>>blanto+y2
Not just a single server, a single process on a single core (last time I asked pg at least).
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3. iamwil+y4[view] [source] 2013-02-16 00:13:13
>>abstra+Y2
And I recall the last time I looked at the source (when it was released with Arc), it didn't use a database either. All the data is stored as files.
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4. spoile+S5[view] [source] 2013-02-16 00:34:40
>>iamwil+y4
Files???? That's a joke right???
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5. abstra+16[view] [source] 2013-02-16 00:37:03
>>spoile+S5
Why should it be? You can get a long long way by treating the filesystem as a database. The first engineers at Amazon used the same technique a lot, as do I.
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6. kansfa+S6[view] [source] 2013-02-16 00:54:42
>>abstra+16
Because you always end up building your own database out of flat files and that is always worse than using an existing one.
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7. abstra+db[view] [source] 2013-02-16 02:27:04
>>kansfa+S6
Even if that was true, I'd still tell people to start with flat files for a new project. It's like the advice to do a job yourself before hiring for it: You'll be better equipped to judge how well a database is managing your data if you've already done it yourself.
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