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Good summary. The only thing I wanted to add is that the site was load tested at 1 million submissions per hour, which if obviously not enough for the evening p
by 6nf 10y ago
Good summary. The only thing I wanted to add is that the site was load tested at 1 million submissions per hour, which if obviously not enough for the evening peak time on census night.
- bootload 10y ago"the site was load tested at 1 million submissions per hour, which if obviously not enough for the evening peak time on census night." Yep. There were some other technical/spec insights. Like the router failure [0] and the most important bit the use of really poor techniques [1],[2] to ID sensitive data and the potential sale of it. [3] [0] https://twitter.com/riskybusiness/status/763583981749100545 https://twitter.com/riskybusiness/status/763583981749100545 [1] https://twitter.com/peterrenshaw/status/763266008383578112 https://twitter.com/peterrenshaw/status/763266008383578112 [2] "using publicly available data @TurnbullMalcolm yr #SLK581 is URBCO241019542" ~ https://twitter.com/peterrenshaw/status/763244867564601344 https://twitter.com/peterrenshaw/status/763244867564601344 [3] http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-opinion/census-meltdown-just-the-latest-bureau-of-statistics-bungle-20160809-gqow3e http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-opinion/cen...