[kefka]

100,000 users clicking reload every second. 500 posts per second. And there's a text capacity on an article text body.

buro9 : This is just a complete conjecture. I do not know Reddit's internal hardware infrastructure. I just know that real-time police radio transcription is the best news source, bar none. And it's getting hammered.

[buro9]

Interesting.

Are those are by-products of the threaded display? As a flat display of a thread would just result in new pages at the end, all of which would be incredibly cacheable.

[random42]

Caching wont work for _extremely_ dynamic content like flash news update threads like these where >1 comments being posted _every_ second.