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Re:A bit on scaling chess.com's database by awbraunstein on Monday January 11, 2021 @07:29PM (#25740517)
I was also there, and when it wasn't working at first I assumed the DB was totally overloaded. Glad you got it working in the end!
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Re:A bit on scaling chess.com's database by drw on Monday January 11, 2021 @08:09PM (#25740908)
The team had to selectively throttle access to that one game and change things around to get through the overload.

I'm trying to pun "paged" with "Phish" and it doesn't work.

But ops was definitely on deck, on the holiday.

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Re:A bit on scaling chess.com's database by hashkb on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @08:14AM (#25746355)
It's worse than that. They bailed on voting and had a human watching the chat for audience moves.
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