Re:You Will Probably Fail in a Boring and Project-specific Way
by sachinag on Wednesday January 07, 2009 @06:36PM
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You're better at this stuff than most other teams, Tom.
Re:You Will Probably Fail in a Boring and Project-specific Way
by tdavis on Thursday January 08, 2009 @01:31AM
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Thanks brother :)
Re:You Will Probably Fail in a Boring and Project-specific Way
by fallentimes on Thursday January 08, 2009 @02:27PM
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Ha - I still remember that night/week. Tom and I were so worried that we took turns staying awake to make sure the Boogie Monster wouldn't take down TicketStumbler. I think I ended up sleeping 10 hours in 4 nights and puking my brains out before we gave our demo day rehearsal presentation later that week.
Re:You Will Probably Fail in a Boring and Project-specific Way
by jasonkester on Thursday January 08, 2009 @05:21PM
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We had a similar experience with Twiddla. It just plain handled all the traffic that TechCrunch, ReadWriteWeb, LifeHacker and 100Shiki could throw at it, and all the traffic that came from winning SXSW too. Never moved the CPU over 15%.
The strange thing is that it was almost exactly the same magnitude of traffic that stopped Twitter dead in its tracks a year earlier, and subsequently gave them a ton of media attention.
Sounds like maybe there is some strategic benefit to falling down under load in a spectacular way!
Nothing happened. I mean, we got the traffic and all that, but the only way you would have known was to look at Google Analytics. The site was screaming fast (way faster than any competitor) and it was a pretty uneventful day for my sysadmin hat.
It was then I decided that maybe you don't have to architect some masterfully optimized site to survive traffic surges... you just have to use common sense and everything will be fine.