> > ComiXology had those comics marked as free, but due to the demand, the servers
> > weren't able to handle it and they had to stop giving them away from their servers.
> >
> > http://blog.comixology.com/2013/03/11/message-from-the-ceo/
>
> It's apparently impossible for anyone to estimate bandwidth demand. These guys can't
> do it, EA can't do it, everyone seems to get clobbered. I should start a consulting
> business where companies like this show me their plans, and I tell them "You guys are
> going to be a smoking crater 90 seconds after you launch."
>
Behind the Chicago Marathon Registration Crash
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Registration for the Chicago Marathon opened at noon on February 19. Almost immediately, users began having issues. This happened for several reasons, says Eric McCue, general manager of sports at the Active Network.
“The first point is we ran registration on our older system,” he says. “The second point is we ran it at a point in time when we were upgrading the environment the application sits on. It was spread across two different environments. The combination of that fact with the very high demand caused some communication errors within the system and caused some slowness, which ultimately caused a poor customer experience.”
Some slowness and poor customer experience really doesn't do it justice. Total clusterfuck would be more appropriate.
Oh for Pete's sake.
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