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Re:We Just Undid Three Months of Dev work. Here's What We Le... by acl on Wednesday October 07, 2009 @04:59PM (#867627)
They assumed performance wouldn't be a problem

We did pretty extensive performance tests, but not for long enough. We load tested tested for hours at a time, and the problems started to show up after days of production load and really compounded after that. It's probably a topic for another post, but the performance of database tables with a lot of churn (rows being frequently inserted and deleted) really degrades over time.

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Re:We Just Undid Three Months of Dev work. Here's What We Le... by stingraycharles on Wednesday October 07, 2009 @05:09PM (#867650)
Guess that's my bad for assuming you thought performance wouldn't be a problem. :-)
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