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Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub

Github has been down consistently over the last few months - does it make sense to switch to alternatives? Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49331033 Points: 240 # Comments: 146

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Rate Limiting a Crawler Across Node Cluster Workers

Code: Megapixel99/webCrawler This project is a small search engine I wrote to understand how one works: a crawler, an inverted index in MongoDB, and a BM25 ranker, all written by hand instead of…

  • Rate limiter initially lacked rate limiting, causing server overload.
  • Fixed by storing rate limiting state in shared MongoDB collection.
  • Implemented atomic findOneAndUpdate operation to prevent race conditions.

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