Wtf has SaidIt done right that Ruqqus did wrong?

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[–]Riva 12 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 0 fun13 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Yup the original Reddit code written by Aaron is battle tested and durable. Other software doesn't come close and the DDoS protection developed here really helped as well. It's exciting to be here at the beginning.

[–]magnora7 18 insightful - 2 fun18 insightful - 1 fun19 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

Saidit is built from software that's already battle-tested at a million hits a day, and had a team of 15 people working full-time for 7 years to optimize. The value of this cannot be overstated. It's like we got a old Ferrari engine for free instead of trying to design and build one from scratch

[–]Tums_is_Smut_bkwrds 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

15 people working full-time for 7 years

Can you back this up? It just sounds like an exaggerated claim, that's all.

[–]magnora7 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

That was the size of the reddit team and how many years between when it was first written and when it became the open-source we used.

I guess it was more like 10 years, 2005 to 2015. But I think they had at least 15 people working in it, as they got $20 million dollars of venture capital in 2005, and it only went up from there. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reddit#History

[–]Tums_is_Smut_bkwrds 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

That sounds more reasonable. Certainly they were working on optimization but it seems more likely to me that a significant part of the effort was maintenance, bug chasing, and other IT busy work. The info may actually be in the article you linked somewhere but I'm not invested enough to read it that closely.

Regardless there's no question that your point that the code was heavily optimized is valid; It really is a marvel.