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Meh? It's a play-money stock exchange which processed over 200k orders since a few seconds ago. We're in the process of finding the parts of the plumbing that
by patio11 11y ago
Meh? It's a play-money stock exchange which processed over 200k orders since a few seconds ago. We're in the process of finding the parts of the plumbing that weren't sized right for hundreds of simultaneous players and tens of thousands of simultaneous actors (each bot is approximately as taxing on the infra as a human -- more, at the moment, since many folks can't read the instructions to start hitting us with orders and the bots already know how to do that).
- kasey_junk 11y agoDon't underestimate how valuable "meh" post mortems are. I for one, would love to see your usual writing ability applied to one. Weeks from now when this is all a funny anecdote of course...
- gknoy 11y agoI confess that I would love to see Patrick's usual writing style and ability applied to almost anything. I'm not sure why, but he just seems to be really ... genuine? Personable? It's like I'm listening to a friend talk -- a friend who happens to either be an expert, or have really interesting things to say. I want to say that it's bizarre, but I think it's mainly that he writes very well.
- SyneRyder 11y agoI wondered if Patrick wrote "The StarFighter Handshake", the friendly guidelines that take the place of Terms And Conditions when you signup. It made the usual legalese (ie don't DDOS our site, don't hack into personal user data) feel like shared values of a club you were about to join. That had a hugely positive reaction on me when I saw & read it, and I'm not even entirely sure why I was so impressed. [Kudos, whoever wrote it.]
- supster 11y agoDid you guys consider using Elixir/Phoenix? Seems like it would have been a good fit (in terms of scalability) for what you guys have built.