Software architects should be involved in earliest system engineering activities

Re:Software architects should be involved in earliest system... by tachyonbeam on Saturday August 17, 2019 @03:05PM (#20725689)

> How can "Principal Systems Engineer" meaningfully talk about such complex matters of system design and architecture, when they fail at much easier task of handling web page availability with a slightly non-trivial load?

1. Are you sure that the person writing the blog post is the person in charge of webhosting?

2. I have pet projects running on some small virtual private servers. I have no idea if they could handle the load from HN. Does it make me a worse software engineer that I can't justify paying more for a beefier dedicated server right now?

PS: does someone have an estimate of how much traffic (hits per minute/hour) the HN front page can bring?

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Re:Software architects should be involved in earliest system... by avip on Saturday August 17, 2019 @04:47PM (#20726253)

This guy knows https://thehftguy.com/2017/09/26/hitting-hacker-news-front-p...

(he got 20K/day, which for all intent equals zero in my experience)

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Re:Software architects should be involved in earliest system... by trilila on Saturday August 17, 2019 @04:31PM (#20726148)

Idk if traffic per minute is relevant. Depends a lot on what sits behind hn to figure out how many servers are needed.

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