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mappu on Jan 19, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Building a Modern Web Stack for the Real-time Web

The most interesting part of this article for me is the comment from Jay Levitt about AOL's old stack. Fascinating.

The reimplementation side of things is one more strike against software patentry, at least.

nivertech on Jan 19, 2012 [–]

This architecture supported 1.5 million simultaneous users - with buddy lists and IMs, which means a full-mesh n^2 pub-sub system

Novadays I can hold 1.5M open sockets on single server ...

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