Are YOU ready?
Posted by admin, Tue Oct 30 12:39:44 UTC 2007
You are a web developer, and your web application is up and running at last. You can only hope it will become popular. But are you ready for when it happens? These two ticket selling operations didn’t have to wait and wonder if they would “become” popular, they KNEW exactly when the flood would arrive… And still, they were unprepared.
High demand crashes Beijing Olympics ticket website
On Tuesday, organizers were working to fix the problem, the BOCOG website said. It asked ticket buyers to be patient and to avoid constantly refreshing the online ticketing site. Within the first hour of sale, the website was visited eight million times and received more than 200,000 ticket requests per second, BOCOG said. It’s unclear how many tickets were sold Tuesday, but BOCOG said 9,000 were sold within the first two hours.
Colorado fans rock World Series ticket system
On Monday, there were 8.5 million attempts to connect with the Rockies’ computers in the first 90 minutes after sales started, he said, and only several hundred tickets had been sold before the system had to be shut down.
So, in a very well timed coincidence, the CRUserS topic this month, “Rails Caching”, given by local member and creator of Baby Name Map, Guy Davis, will be addressing some of the problems that arise, when your web application is “discovered”. Hope to see you there. November 20, 6 pm, at the Calgary Central Library.