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Taiga.io hit #1 on @HackerNewsYCBot for a while today (thanks HN!). Traffic up 100x. I was dumb enough to ask our developers if we could handle it. This is what
by eposner 12y ago
Taiga.io hit #1 on @HackerNewsYCBot for a while today (thanks HN!). Traffic up 100x. I was dumb enough to ask our developers if we could handle it. This is what they sent back
http://goo.gl/B57ERn http://goo.gl/B57ERn
Each little "ball" is a request to the server
On the left: the IP numbers from the users connecting around the world
To the right: The url's being served up
In the center: The "static calls being serviced by our front end
The brightness represents the speed with which the code written by our awesome developers delivers data (aided of course the great hardware)
Had any of the balls gone past to the right, that would have been a serve we couldn't return. Try that, Federer!
- iamtew 12y agoNice video, haven't seen Logstalgia in a while! At first I didn't think the traffic looked that heavy but comparing the time and requests, quite decent numbers (~6600 hits in ~2 minutes). And sweet job on Taiga, nice and clean looks!
- drodri 12y agoGreat job, both taiga and managing the peak so well. Any tips about the infraestructure you are running? Relaying on any PaSS or managing yourself?
- _diacritica_ 12y agoVirtual machine, 1 core, 1 GB RAM, <20% CPU all the time.
- sanemat 12y agoAwesome.
- thefreeman 12y agoCool visualization! But the top 50% of that (which seems to be the most dense) could have been completely avoided if you just slapped a CloudFront instance in front of it.
- e12e 12y agoI don't know -- by some guestimates fed into http://calculator.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html http://calculator.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html I ended up with an estimated 600USD/month bill ... so what would they gain by complicating their architecture when they're already able to handle the traffic?
- rattray 12y agoUsing CloudFlare instead of CloudFront would have meant, what, $20/month?
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- thefreeman 12y agoAnd what guestimates would those be? I doubt they are serving 10TB in static files per month. If adding a CDN to your architecture is too much complication then I would definitely not want to use your product for my business. It's literally a question of pointing CloudFront to your server, and substituting the CloudFront assigned domain in for static assets. Also, from what I can tell, they aren't handling the traffic. I have tried numerous times to use the "Open Live Instance" link and it does not work.
- e12e 12y ago> And what guestimates would those be? 1gb/week with 60% traffic to the US, average 20kb size with 1000 reset requests/month. I'd love to hear some more realistic estimates. And while (server/service) price is far from the most important consideration, it sounds like they manage to stay way under 50 usd/month in hosting currently. So as anything over 30/month would be a considerable (relative) increase. Add to that doubling? the management overhead from, say, an hour a week to two -- and they'd need to see some clear benefits? And what are those? As for "open live instance, it says "ready soon" for me - but perhaps that is because they didn't, as you say, handle the traffic after all?
- inzax 12y agoIt also did incredibly well on the Facebook Community Page... https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1562750133944854&id=1558365107716690 https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1562750133...
- staunch 12y agoFYI: Link shorteners are frowned upon on HN.
- DaFranker 12y agoCurious about why. I'd understand a social stigma against ad-based redirection services, but does that translate into a frown against all shorteners somehow? Or is there some other cause?
- staunch 12y agoThey obscure the destination, track users, and break at some point in the future leaving a bad link in the archives.
- DaFranker 12y agoThanks. Some of these aren't properties exclusive to redirection sites... but I'll readily admit they're very much standard features there, while mostly not too common elsewhere.
- fphhotchips 12y agoThat is the most useless visualisation I think I've ever seen. I love it.
- eposner 12y ago:)
- kendallpark 12y agoSo can we get this code as well?
- Xaviju 12y agoThis is generated using Logstalgia, which is a website access log visualization tool. https://code.google.com/p/logstalgia/ https://code.google.com/p/logstalgia/
- sdrothrock 12y ago> Had any of the balls gone past to the right, that would have been a serve we couldn't return. Try that, Federer! I do see a few balls going to the right -- what happened with those?
- eposner 12y agoThose are 404 error... But very few in the context of the whole dataset