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Uhm. Shmoocon and Playa Del Fuego sell... what, 2,000 tickets? Burning Man is selling 70,000 this year. 40,000 were sold in this single sale alone. That's a

• peterwwillis 12y ago
  The design is scalable to any ticket amount, given enough time and servers. You accept connections and assign queue numbers and then delay purchasing. You add randomization of various requests and entry in the queue itself to prevent gaming or latency-derived unfairness. I've worked on websites that return hundreds of thousands of dynamic content pages per second, and you don't even need to do that here: all you need is a landing page that sets cookies, and then you can take all day to actually allow people to purchase with the reservation number they've got. The bug has nothing to do with any of that, though...
• forgottenpass 12y ago
  That's entirely irrelevant unless you're arguing that 40k (and/or N number of attempted buyers) are too many items to manage in a queue on the server side. Is that what you're saying?
• beambot 12y ago
  Go look at the Comic-Con registration then. Theirs is something like 130,000?