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sheiyeitoday at 2:58 PM1 replyview on HN

Lichess is incredibly well optimized [0] (and an amazing public service). I'm sure that this is very cost effective for TTT, so a win-win.

[0] https://lichess.org/@/revoof/blog/optimizing-the-tablebase-s...


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Imustaskforhelptoday at 3:18 PM

Lichess is written in Scala and is hosted on dedicated OVH for a very significantly small amount of money (I think just a few thousand dollars per month) and hosts so many millions of players and games.

It's an understatement how well optimized they are right down to the optimization techniques that they use and the infra providers that they use. The same thing even in something like AWS could cause significantly more amount of money.

It also shows that you don't need AWS/GCP/Azure for basically just about everything, to be honest.

Lichess is a beacon of hope and congrats to the lichess team for this cooperation with TTT.

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