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848 points thefilmore | 1 comments | 13 May 25 05:23 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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tgsovlerkhgsel ◴[13 May 25 07:08 UTC] No.43970332[source]▶
On one hand, centralization at a commercial provider isn't great.

On the other hand, the plethora of different self-hosted platforms with limited feature sets is a huge pain. Just finding the repo is often a frustrating exercise, and then trying to view, or worse, search the code without checking it out is often even more frustrating or straight out impossible.

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smallnix ◴[13 May 25 07:13 UTC] No.43970364[source]▶
I wish I could search on GitHub without logging in
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nicce ◴[13 May 25 07:23 UTC] No.43970416[source]▶
They used to have 64 core 32 machine cluster just for search. You may want to reduce unnecessary search. https://github.blog/engineering/the-technology-behind-github...
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1. mdaniel ◴[13 May 25 15:36 UTC] No.43974112{3}[source]▶
This from a company that uses Ruby for their webapp and hosts probably one of the bigger CI build farms probably in the world. I have a very hard time crying because they have to run a beefy search cluster. I would guess that a very non-trivial portion of the horsepower for such a thing is about ingest of the constant updates moreso than the actual search part