Heh, good luck doing this for HN. You might say "Arc," but it's been modified for a decade.
I wonder if the mods would ever be interested in being interviewed or talking about some of the tech. The last bit of Arc info we got was https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11240681, which was awesome.
It's pretty unique. I don't think any other large website in the world has written their own stack from top to bottom. Even Facebook uses php.
They use in-memory hash tables, which works since the whole site can be in memory.
Originally they did build their own http stack but switched to nginx for a reverse proxy. On the other hand I'm not sure how much they lean on nginx's facilities.
I wonder if the mods would ever be interested in being interviewed or talking about some of the tech. The last bit of Arc info we got was https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11240681, which was awesome.
It's pretty unique. I don't think any other large website in the world has written their own stack from top to bottom. Even Facebook uses php.