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Somewhere, some ops engineer is being pinged because the alerting system has noticed a huge increase in hits to the error page.
by cbm-vic-20 5y ago
Somewhere, some ops engineer is being pinged because the alerting system has noticed a huge increase in hits to the error page.
- justin_oaks 5y agoI was thinking the same thing, but that engineer should have a really short investigation as to why it's happening. Access logs often include the HTTP Referer header, which would make it easy to see that all the traffic is coming from Hacker News. Even so, if I were the one to submit the URL to Hacker News, I'd probably make the URL path something like /showing_404_page_to_Hacker_News so it's impossible for someone reading the access logs to wonder what's going on.
- human 5y agoThe engineer is already on HN and foresaw it before it happened.
- techdragon 5y agoOr the engineer is the one that posted it and already had the next 24hr window declared ahead of time to prevent the false positive.
- divbzero 5y agoThis huge increase in hits is accounted for by the “Behavioral economics” explanation: “The influence of psychological factors caused you to act in a manner that would not be expected of a purely rational actor.”
- deleted 5y ago[deleted]
- i2shar 5y ago> Demand increased and a shortage occurred. The engineer then sat back and smiled at how their server continues to serve this page just fine despite the HN demand :)