Ep. 95 - Is The Website Down? (Stella Cotton)
Stella takes us through the journey of getting a Billion dollar 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.
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Show Notes
When one man decided to crowdfund a bailout for Greece on Indiegogo (a feat that 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
- Partner with Dev & CodeNewbie! (sponsor)
- Apache bench
- REDIS
- Heroku
- Indiegogo
- Cache
- Etsy
- Feature Flag
- Latency
- RSpec
- Kaya Thomas Episode
- W3C
- Michael J. Fox Foundation Data Challenge
- Codeland Conf
- Codeland 2019
Stella Cotton
Stella Cotton is a software engineer, Ruby enthusiast, conference speaker, and co-organizer of SF.rb & AndConf.