I recall reading a comment from Graham somewhere that one of the goals of the experiment with news.arc was to show that a "slow" language can serve a high-traffic website directly, with appropriate optimization and caching in its design, without having to be "protected" by something like Varnish or Squid in front of it.
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You'd think they'd stick a proxy in front of the HN server to compress.
I recall reading a comment from Graham somewhere that one of the goals of the experiment with news.arc was to show that a "slow" language can serve a high-traffic website directly, with appropriate optimization and caching in its design, without having to be "protected" by something like Varnish or Squid in front of it.