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thenewgreen · 4111 days ago · link · · parent · post: Reddit: Lessons Learned from Mistakes Made Scaling to 1 Billion Pageviews a Month
Treat nonlogged in users as second class citizens. By always giving logged out always cached content Akamai bears the brunt for reddit’s traffic. Huge performance improvement.
This point is an interesting one. We have a tremendous amount of lurkers compared to active users, the majority of which are logged out. I wonder how we could implement more of a variance between the two?