Submission timeline
2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
First comments on top threads
HN comment orderWhile I'm a big fan of haproxy, Apache, and nginx, I will say I also very much like trafficserver as a cache. Compared to squid, which I've always wanted to like but never really have, it is much easier to set up, and it's proven to be very reliable in our use. Specifically, I install it, point it at a large raw disk partition, and drop in my config files (largely consisting of routing rules for where to get the…
I work at a large company that uses ATS heavily (top 5 site). There have been huge improvements in performance and functionality after this paper has been written. In his benchmarks he was running with a single volume configured for cache, which would have a global lock on cache. If he partitioned the cache into multiple volumes (something we do by default now) he would have had much lower cache hit response times. The majority of our cache hit response…
The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.
- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 367
- Total comments
- 108
100+ points or 50+ comments
reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-01-27 | Apache Traffic ServerFirst breakout | nikolay | 180 | 71 |
| 2020-05-05 | Apache Traffic Server | Tomte | 2 | 0 |
| 2021-11-02 | Apache Traffic ServerBest thread · Latest 20+ point return | nuerow | 182 | 37 |
| 2024-07-24 | Apache Traffic Server | udev4096 | 3 | 0 |