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nlawalker
2898 days ago
Heh, elegance like "There is a story on the front page getting lots of attention, please log out so we can serve you from cache."
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tambourine_man
2898 days ago
Admittedly, that’s very rare.
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nlawalker
2898 days ago
I know, just a good natured poke :) Plus you could probably take that comment at face value - making use of web caching is definitely an important tool when building a large scale system.
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copperx
2898 days ago
Why is caching out of the window when logged in?
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paulddraper
2898 days ago
It's a page-level cache, and your view on a page depends on username, hidden submissions, point counts, etc.
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dmoy
2898 days ago
votes, things to hide, etc all change the page and prevent serving everything wholesale out of cache
I'm not actually sure, just guessing...
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justicezyx
2898 days ago
This is elegance.
Balancing between user experience and cost.
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toomuchtodo
2898 days ago
When your queue is full, back pressure.
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hinkley
2898 days ago
Elegance like "The entire site is a giant nested table in 2018"
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dozzie
2898 days ago
And what exactly is wrong about that? Its loading and rendering speed? Or that it works in text mode?
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