nex3/arc — Issue #8: How is data stored?
Author: lmatteis
Created: 2011-12-03 22:59:56+00:00
State: open

I obviously don't understand Arc-lisp. But I was wondering how data was stored. It seems like it's plain text files. How does Hacker News behave so well with simple text files?

Also how does it scale this data... can a single server handle all of the files opening and writing? Even if some data is in RAM it must eat a lot of RAM... so my question is, how does Hacker News continue to scale data with the huge amount of traffic they get? Where's the secret?