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Re: Stockfighter is live

#51

Post by joeyspn »

patio11 wrote: post #49
tptacek wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I BLAME RAILS.

Thomas and I have a running gag about this. Rails is holding up admirably. You can still actually see the website. Our problem is presently that one player implies 1+ ruby (not Rails) processes running bots and doing orchestration for their levels, and that has pegged the CPU on all of our GM boxes and also, possibly, saturated their network links as they hit the venue with... I don't actually know how many orders ha…

> Rails is holding up admirably. You can still actually see the website.

Site is down now... (at least in Europe)

Re: Stockfighter is live

#52

Post by danielvf »

joeyspn wrote: post #51
patio11 wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thomas and I have a running gag about this. Rails is holding up admirably. You can still actually see the website. Our problem is presently that one player implies 1+ ruby (not Rails) processes running bots and doing orchestration for their levels, and that has pegged the CPU on all of our GM boxes and also, possibly, saturated their network links as they hit the venue with... I don't actually know how many orders ha…

> Rails is holding up admirably. You can still actually see the website. Site is down now... (at least in Europe)

Site has been mostly down for me in the US over the last ten minutes.

Re: Stockfighter is live

#53

Post by [deleted] »

patio11 wrote: post #49
tptacek wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I BLAME RAILS.

Thomas and I have a running gag about this. Rails is holding up admirably. You can still actually see the website. Our problem is presently that one player implies 1+ ruby (not Rails) processes running bots and doing orchestration for their levels, and that has pegged the CPU on all of our GM boxes and also, possibly, saturated their network links as they hit the venue with... I don't actually know how many orders ha…

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Re: Stockfighter is live

#54

Post by OJFord »

joeyspn wrote: post #51
patio11 wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thomas and I have a running gag about this. Rails is holding up admirably. You can still actually see the website. Our problem is presently that one player implies 1+ ruby (not Rails) processes running bots and doing orchestration for their levels, and that has pegged the CPU on all of our GM boxes and also, possibly, saturated their network links as they hit the venue with... I don't actually know how many orders ha…

> Rails is holding up admirably. You can still actually see the website. Site is down now... (at least in Europe)

Give it time, for me it thought about it a few minutes, and then rendered :)

Re: Stockfighter is live

#55

Post by dfc »

Usernames must start with a letter? That is an odd requirement. I usually pad my username with zeroes when sites dont let me choose dfc. Out of curiosity why the constraint?

Re: Stockfighter is live

#56

Post by joshmn »

mwcampbell wrote: post #48
kasey_junk wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I suspect that was irony...

In a blog post some months ago [1], Patrick said that some components do use Rails. [1] http://www.kalzumeus.com/2015/08/20/designing-and-building-s...

I know using Rails isn't as popular here as it once was, but in my experience, if you cache correctly (like you should), it's trivial to scale.

Re: Stockfighter is live

#57

Post by viraptor »

patio11 wrote: post #49
tptacek wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I BLAME RAILS.

Thomas and I have a running gag about this. Rails is holding up admirably. You can still actually see the website. Our problem is presently that one player implies 1+ ruby (not Rails) processes running bots and doing orchestration for their levels, and that has pegged the CPU on all of our GM boxes and also, possibly, saturated their network links as they hit the venue with... I don't actually know how many orders ha…

I so want to read a postmortem of the launch issues. It's one thing when a corporate project with crazy requirements goes down (almost expected these days :( ). Completely different when a service started/run by known tech people with their own schedule breaks on launch. I'd be really interested in what testing was done and why it didn't match reality. (not a jab/criticism, just something to actually learn from)

Re: Stockfighter is live

#59

Post by zrail »

2oi4j3 wrote: post #50

How does the "finding jobs" part work? Are you aiming to help people get a foot in the door at companies which would be looking to interview them, or trying to skip the "technical interview" part completely? (generate interview opportunities vs job offers)

http://starfighters.io/ (click "how?" in the last paragraph)

Re: Stockfighter is live

#60

Post by xfour »

Seems to be pretty stressed out at the moment, tons of 500s and timeouts. 2-3 refreshes per page, got to the Level controls dialog, nothing doing.

We couldn't start the level: This level has been locked by a different server. (Sorry if this happened accidentally as a result of a server crash -- it will clear up in an hour.) Refresh page to check if server is down?

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