[bhl]

Can I ask a question that's half facetious half serious (0.5\s): does hackernews use docker or any containers in its backend? With 6M requests per day, if it didn't use containers, HN might be a good counter example against premature optimization (?).

[dang]

Nope, nothing like that. I don't understand why containers would be relevant here though? I thought they had to do more with things like isolation and deployment than with performance, and it's not obvious to me how an extra layer would speed things up?

[bhl]

I was trying to point out in my original comment that some people maybe pre-maturely optimizing for scale, and having tooling drive decision-making rather than problems at hand. And a good logical short circuit to that would be: "if Hacker News serves 6M requests per day, then using docker would be overkill for a small CRUD app".

That being said, if modern websites were rated by utility to user divided by complexity of tech stack, I must say Hacker News would be one of the top ranked sites compared to something similar like Reddit or Twitter which at times feels... like a juggling act on top of unicycle just to read some comments. :)

[cm2187]

Agree. No one has created anything better than html tables!