How We Made Github Fast (2009)
This blog post blew my mind. I generally thought of GitHub as being in the front-end business, but maybe they're really in the back-end business?<p>Is this sort of complexity common? I'm not saying I think it's bad, as I am sure it's all there for a good reason, but it just seems like <i>so many</i> services to bounce through before a web page is even served.