hot code, cold feet
Sep. 6th, 2006 08:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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We're looking down the gun of an evening launch and an early morning start tomorrow. It's been about a year since the project started, and we've got as much of a media blitz as we could muster hitting tomorrow.
All 7 of us are in the office, sort of waiting for blockers. Everyone has been asked if there's any crises left several times.
One major worry is speed. It's extremely difficult to get a quick sense of how an application will scale on the web. We're expecting an exponential traffic increase very quickly, and are hoping things don't slow down interminably.
Of course, slowdowns (and even inavailability) are somewhat expected for any new site, especially if you get digged or slashdotted. We're hoping for the kind of attention that burns servers down.
We're looking down the gun of an evening launch and an early morning start tomorrow. It's been about a year since the project started, and we've got as much of a media blitz as we could muster hitting tomorrow.
All 7 of us are in the office, sort of waiting for blockers. Everyone has been asked if there's any crises left several times.
One major worry is speed. It's extremely difficult to get a quick sense of how an application will scale on the web. We're expecting an exponential traffic increase very quickly, and are hoping things don't slow down interminably.
Of course, slowdowns (and even inavailability) are somewhat expected for any new site, especially if you get digged or slashdotted. We're hoping for the kind of attention that burns servers down.
