Skip to content

Comment on How We Built the Software that Processes Billions in Paymentsparent

Comments

This one made me go "Huh?" and reread.

I don't understand why you'd need a custom HTTP server. It might be overly simplistic, but just write a module for nginx? Surely that would have been faster. You get controllable timeouts, you could tweak their throttling code to stop it throwing 50x, and modify/take inspiration from nginx-ey-balancer. And you get a bullet proof HTTP engine for free?

AboutSource Built by g1lg1l

Hackerly is an independent reader for Hacker News, built on the public HN API. Not affiliated with Y Combinator.