Comments on: A Tough Engineering Decision http://www.embracingchaos.com/2007/05/a_tough_enginee.html Analysis of Trends in Technology, Business, Society Wed, 25 Jan 2012 18:52:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: leodirac http://www.embracingchaos.com/2007/05/a_tough_enginee.html/comment-page-1#comment-357 leodirac Thu, 24 May 2007 19:21:50 +0000 http://wp.embracingchaos.com/2007/05/a_tough_enginee.html#comment-357 <p>Yep. Based on just what's shared here I probably would have held off. But my experience with the whole system gave me enough confidence that it would work out that I thought it worth the risk. I knew the CDN's cache efficiency hadn't been super high, and I had faith in the robustness of the database I knew we'd be pummeling hardest, especially since we'd tuned the connection and thread pools to that one to keep the system from swamping itself under heavy load. Like I say it's a judgment call.</p> Yep. Based on just what's shared here I probably would have held off. But my experience with the whole system gave me enough confidence that it would work out that I thought it worth the risk. I knew the CDN's cache efficiency hadn't been super high, and I had faith in the robustness of the database I knew we'd be pummeling hardest, especially since we'd tuned the connection and thread pools to that one to keep the system from swamping itself under heavy load. Like I say it's a judgment call.

]]> By: Ramez Naam http://www.embracingchaos.com/2007/05/a_tough_enginee.html/comment-page-1#comment-356 Ramez Naam Wed, 23 May 2007 19:06:06 +0000 http://wp.embracingchaos.com/2007/05/a_tough_enginee.html#comment-356 <p>Great story. I think I would have not pressed the button, on the grounds of choosing the devil I knew over the one I didn't (the potential takedown of the whole site).</p> <p>Glad it worked out!</p> Great story. I think I would have not pressed the button, on the grounds of choosing the devil I knew over the one I didn't (the potential takedown of the whole site).

Glad it worked out!

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