Surviving an earthquake's worth of traffic
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What does an earthquake look like?
When you run an earthquake website
Dylan Jay
(it's python, it's good!)
We do mostly do .gov.au
Victorian SES
Wanted CMS
Wanted Multi-site
Wanted it secure
Wanted to theme it themselves
That won't fall over in a disaster99.99% uptime
That's < 4.5min per month
So we built it for them
Architecture
Lots of pipes CDN
Nginx
Varnish
Haproxy
Zope/Plone
MySQL
x2 (SA & NSW)
Plone's cache management rocks!
It was load tested
First checked with Funkload (it's python, it's good!)WebUnit
Automated distributed testing
Then with jmeter (SaaS)Then we got the hoster to do it :)
Prediction: 840k in 15min
0 to 21Gbs and 130k rps
ebay.com's traffic 10 billion page views/monthWith no warning
No downtime!
Unlike our competitors
What does an earthquake look like?
When you run an earthquake website!
Dylan Jay
