A look at how Reddit works. Reddit is one of the most-visited sites on the internet running on a stack most modern engineers would call heresy: Python monoliths, Postgres, Varnish, and a 90%+ edge-cache hit rate that means most requests never touch an application server at all. The architecture is a love letter to caching… Continue reading
How Reddit Works: Python Monolith Plus 90% Varnish Cache
