The Guardian shuts down 2/3 of servers because of single commit

Posted by mbarlocker on Tuesday August 05, 2014 @03:56PM
from the nineofclouds.blogspot.com dept.

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Re:The Guardian shuts down 2/3 of servers because of single ... by ColinWright on Tuesday August 05, 2014 @04:26PM (#8139177)

To add a little clarity, a single commit reduced the load on the servers so much that 2/3 of the processing power was no longer needed.

Now read on ...

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Re:The Guardian shuts down 2/3 of servers because of single ... by room271 on Tuesday August 05, 2014 @04:57PM (#8139373)

Yeah, I read the title and immediately thought the Guardian had messed up!

In fact, they simply upgraded their version of Play and yielded some performance wins (which the article then explains more fully).

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Re:The Guardian shuts down 2/3 of servers because of single ... by xxxmadraxxx on Tuesday August 05, 2014 @04:46PM (#8139302)

Stopped reading at "Arse-Sum"

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