When one man decided to crowdfund a bailout for Greece on Indiegogo (a feat the required over a billion dollars), Stella Cotton and her team found themselves in trouble. The site went down, and they had to figure out what to do. Stella takes us through the journey of getting the Indiegogo site back up, shares what she’s learned about site availability and what CodeNewbies can do to be ready for their own heavy traffic.
Show Links
- Linode (sponsor)
- Michael J. Fox Foundation Data Challenge
- W3C
- Kaya Thomas Episode
- RSpec
- Latency
- Feature Flag
- Etsy
- Cache
- Indiegogo
- Heroku
- REDIS
- Apache bench
Shoutouts
- Sponsored Shoutout: Linode (Saron)
- If Me (Stella)
- Julia Evan’s Blog (Stella)
- High Scalability (Stella)
- Down For Everyone or Just Me? (Saron)
- Is It Down Right Now? (Saron)
- The Website Is Down (Saron)
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