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The essay is about software you write. The author most likely didn't write the blog software nor the web server software.

by mef 12y ago

vinceguidry 12y ago
No he didn't write it. He had a much easier job, to pick software that does do it right.
- danielweber 12y ago
  He likely doesn't give a shit about that. If my blog is unreadable for five minutes a month, I am perfectly happy and I'm not going to change anything.
  - vinceguidry 12y ago
    Doesn't give a shit? Seriously? I wouldn't dream of keeping a blog that couldn't handle a HN traffic spike. That's the whole point of having a blog. Failing at this is like launching your startup's MVP to an audience of the first fifty people who were able to load your product launch page before it crashed under the load. In other words, a giant, easily-avoidable waste of effort.
    - shadowfox 12y ago
      > I wouldn't dream of keeping a blog that couldn't handle a HN traffic spike. That's the whole point of having a blog. It seems possible that some people don't care that much about HN traffic spikes.
  - jwmerrill 12y ago
    That's fine, but it's exactly the opposite of the attitude expressed in the post. "The ratio of bytes loaded to load time should be very close to the I/O throughput of the machine." How do you think the bytes served for a few hundred requests a minute compares to the theoretical I/O throughput of the relevant machines? And because no one can see my tongue in my cheek across the internet, I'll be explicit that I'm sure he is a user of his publishing environment, not it's author, and so it's fair to view this as just another symptom of the problem he's discussing.
  - Ma8ee 12y ago
    But it will be unreadable when most people want to read it. Sure, the 200 hundred readers that normally read your blog in the course of the month won't be much disturbed. It's just the 20000 readers that tried to reach it in in a couple of minutes that you will lose.

The essay is about software you write. The author most likely didn't write the blog software nor the web server software.

by mef 12y ago

The essay is about software you write. The author most likely didn't write the blog software nor the web server software.

vinceguidry 12y ago

No he didn't write it. He had a much easier job, to pick software that does do it right.

danielweber 12y ago
He likely doesn't give a shit about that. If my blog is unreadable for five minutes a month, I am perfectly happy and I'm not going to change anything.
- vinceguidry 12y ago
  Doesn't give a shit? Seriously? I wouldn't dream of keeping a blog that couldn't handle a HN traffic spike. That's the whole point of having a blog. Failing at this is like launching your startup's MVP to an audience of the first fifty people who were able to load your product launch page before it crashed under the load. In other words, a giant, easily-avoidable waste of effort.
  - shadowfox 12y ago
    > I wouldn't dream of keeping a blog that couldn't handle a HN traffic spike. That's the whole point of having a blog. It seems possible that some people don't care that much about HN traffic spikes.
- jwmerrill 12y ago
  That's fine, but it's exactly the opposite of the attitude expressed in the post. "The ratio of bytes loaded to load time should be very close to the I/O throughput of the machine." How do you think the bytes served for a few hundred requests a minute compares to the theoretical I/O throughput of the relevant machines? And because no one can see my tongue in my cheek across the internet, I'll be explicit that I'm sure he is a user of his publishing environment, not it's author, and so it's fair to view this as just another symptom of the problem he's discussing.
- Ma8ee 12y ago
  But it will be unreadable when most people want to read it. Sure, the 200 hundred readers that normally read your blog in the course of the month won't be much disturbed. It's just the 20000 readers that tried to reach it in in a couple of minutes that you will lose.