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Did HN just hug a 404 page to death? That is pretty surreal!
by jimnotgym 7y ago
Did HN just hug a 404 page to death? That is pretty surreal!
- ce4 7y agoDoesnt surprise me to be honest. I've seen this in the past where a backend google search appliance search was triggered for 404 with the query being parts of the 404 url. That overwhelmed the search appliance and led to thread exhaustion on the component in front (ridiculous search timeout)... in the end the whole site went down.
- gberger 7y agoI've read the second sentence 5 times, but I can't understand it. Could you rephrase it please?
- tedunangst 7y agoFront end hit to /article/page-not-here triggers a search in the back end, /search?q=page+not+here.
- ce4 7y agoSorry for that. That was a classic tomcat + reverse proxy setup with a fixed number of tc threads. All were being starved by waiting for the search appliance backend calls to return (60s timeout).
- jcims 7y agoGo to ft.com, accept the declaration of cookies, try again.
- medmunds 7y agoEven more so, the page offers a theory to explain that: > Speculative bubble > The page never actually existed and was fundamentally impossible, but everyone bought into it in a frenzy and it's all now ending in tears.
- krackers 7y agoThis one fits even better: >Tragedy of the Commons >Everyone wanted to view this page, but no-one was willing to maintain it.