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  hoppp
  We solved it 2 decades ago but then decided to use javascript on the server ...
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  zahlman
  > And computers are big, too. You can buy a 1000MHz machine with 2 gigabytes of RAM and an 1000Mbit/sec Ethernet card for $1200 or so. Let's see - at 20000 clients, that's 50KHz, 100Kbytes, and 50Kbits/sec per client. It shouldn't take any more horsepower than that to take four kilobytes from the disk and send them to the network once a second for each of twenty thousand clients. (That works out to $0.08 per client, by the way. Those $100/client licensing fees some operating systems charge are starting to look a little heavy!) So hardware is no longer the bottleneck.It seems to me that there are far fewer problems nowadays with trying to figure out how to serve a tiny bit of data to many people with those kinds of resources, and more problems with understanding how to make a tiny bit of data relevant.It still absolutely can be. We've just lost touch.
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  trueismywork
  With nginx and 256 core Epycs, most single servers can easily do 200k requests per sec. Very few companies have more needs
• gnabgib
  (2011 / 2003)Title: The C10K problemPopular in:2014 (112 points, 55 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=72504322007 (13 points, 3 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45603
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  alwa
  Apparently this refers to making a web server able to serve 10,000 clients simultaneously.
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  senko
  The date (2003) is incorrect. The article itself refers to events from 2009, is listed at the bottom of the page as having been last updated in 2014, with a copyright notice spanning 2018, and a minor correction in 2019.
• _qua
  I personally think it's more of a https://c25k.com/ time of year.
• fallingfrog
  Ha, I instantly read "reverse log taper, 10k ohms".
• signa11
  no one is talking about Erlang here ? i was / am under the impression that it is designed for these scenarios.
• amelius
  Yes. But it's easy to reinvent it, with modern OSes and tools.
• hinkley
  I don’t think I even heard of C10K until around 2003.
• readthenotes1
  The internationally famous Unix Network Programming book. An icon, a shibboleth, a cynosurehttps://youtu.be/hjjydz40rNI?si=F7aLOSkLqMzgh2-U(From Wayne's World--how we knew the comedians had smart advisors)
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• draw_down
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• cxr
  Stop fucking editorializing the fucking submission titles.