How We Built r/Place

Re:How We Built r/Place by avip on Thursday April 13, 2017 @02:35PM (#14109703)

I can shed that 333 [something/s], for any uncomplicated something, is so little that a single-core 10YO laptop running a single-process non-blocking webserver (a-la node) could probably handle it, and likely x10 it.

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Re:How We Built r/Place by tummybug on Thursday April 13, 2017 @03:08PM (#14110005)

Sure in a perfect scenario with a well behaving load test client. In production you often encounter scenarios which place unexpected load on your servers.

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Re:How We Built r/Place by eric_h on Thursday April 13, 2017 @04:01PM (#14110440)

Ah yes, the self-inflicted unintentional DDoS attack that doesn't appear when you do a semi-idealized load test. I may or may not have been responsible for one of those once or twice in my life.

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