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10 mentions on Hacker News by 9 people: 1 story, 9 comments · first 2012-04-10 · latest 2026-10-12

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  1. …OKCupid guys wrote their own webserver in C++! I took the concept of "slots" in requests, from it: https://github.com/okws/okws
    comment by EGreg · 2026-10-12 · in A Modern Web App in C
  2. If the custom server they were referring to was OKWS ( https://github.com/OkCupid/okws ), I wouldn’t be surprised if it was basically a rewrite.
    comment by btgeekboy · 2020-11-16 · in Moving OkCupid from REST to GraphQL
  3. …OP but you asked to let you know if someone is a productive web developer in C++, well, I am. [1] https://github.com/OkCupid/okws
    comment by guessmyname · 2019-08-01 · in The Ethics of Web Performance
  4. …is used by the company. That said OkCupid famously used a custom HTTP-server to power their site: https://github.com/OkCupid/okws
    comment by stevekemp · 2018-06-10 · in OpenBSD, C, httpd and SQLite – Web App stack
  5. Actually, some people use C++, with an OKCupid framework. https://github.com/okws/okws
    comment by Shorel · 2015-07-02 · in Why Go and Rust are not competitors
  6. …http://www.brightjourney.com/q/okcupid-write-web-server They've also open sourced their server: https://github.com/okws/okws
    comment by logicchains · 2014-06-04 · in Chris Lattner on Swift
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    OKCupid's open source C++ web application server
    story by nagriar · 2014-04-04 · 0 comments
  8. …the only other ones I've heard of, and they seem to have their own niche they target. There is also https://github.com/okws/okws . I'm sure there are many more, but none of them have sizable market share, especially compared to…
    comment by oomkiller · 2013-11-26 · in We Should Ditch Nginx
  9. …insufficiently copied architecture with interesting performance and security characteristics. [0] https://github.com/okws/okws [1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2077484
    comment by jacques_chester · 2013-03-04 · in Reverse Engineering OKCupid
  10. …cleanly separates application and HTTP concerns and the default libraries are written in C++. [1] https://github.com/okws/okws
    comment by jacques_chester · 2012-04-10 · in PHP: A fractal of bad design