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This is perhaps the most interesting part of this entire article.
by boucher 19y ago
This is perhaps the most interesting part of this entire article.
- pius 19y agoIt was a stunner for me, I must admit.
- qaexl 19y agoPut it in context: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=91814 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=91814 I'm surprised the business even survived that long with that many restarts per day.
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- chaostheory 19y agoforgot to mention this - in defense of 37 Signals and their flagship Rails app... I've been a heavy user of Basecamp/WriteBoard for about 8 months now (we're talkin 6+ hours a day), and I've only experienced an unexpected meltdown once.
- boucher 19y agowhat exactly constitutes a meltdown, and are there ever expected ones?
- chaostheory 19y ago"what exactly constitutes a meltdown" when all you get is a 503 page when nothing responds and it has nothing to do with your connection "and are there ever expected ones?" well, not expected meltdowns; more like advanced notice for maintenance - probably a deployment of a newer version of the web app
- Andys 19y agoDHH was referring to individual unix webserver process restarts, not server reboots.
- pius 19y agoSure, but either way, it's your app server process going down. Not useful.
- fauigerzigerk 19y agoNo that's not useful, but the information coming out of Zed is also not very useful. We don't even know whether the number 400 was meant to be accurate or rethorical. We don't know whether this was going on for a day, a week or a year. His rant was basically an insider thing and there's no way for anyone to judge anything from the outside, which is why I probably shouldn't even be writing these words about it...
- gscott 19y agoEven if it was over a period of a year that seems like a lot.