🏒 Lucian Marin
There's no caching layer because it will hide slowdowns. Once you don't have that you tend to focus on performance at all layers of the stack from template rendering to writing speedy SQL queries.
🤔 David
In a previous post he stated that it runs using Falcon and some WSGI (I'm guessing uWSGI -> edit: nope, gunicorn) on a high-compute Vultr instance. Link for reference: subreply.com/lucia...
🐢 Xia
Nice! Thanks! I'd guess there are some de-normalized tables involved, or this setup can do JOINS incredibly fast. Impressive.