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Re:Post mortem of a failed HackerNews launch by Cherian on Thursday November 29, 2012 @09:22AM (#4847781)
Cucumbertown co-founder here. Nginx was serving the cache and our sense was it was caching. But then the day before we put in csrf validation to the login form and it was bypassing the caching.

So in theory we were positioned to serve from Nginx cache.

Re:Post mortem of a failed HackerNews launch by buro9 on Thursday November 29, 2012 @09:24AM (#4847790)
Ah, always the kicker... small changes with a big and unseen impact.
Re:Post mortem of a failed HackerNews launch by rb2k_ on Thursday November 29, 2012 @09:48AM (#4847935)
And that's why you should have tests :)
Re:Post mortem of a failed HackerNews launch by natrius on Thursday November 29, 2012 @12:18PM (#4848836)
Why does the login form need CSRF protection?