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It looks like the Obama AMA has really caused some serious fires in reddit's backend infrastructure. The site's been down for the last 10 minutes. I would've thought that they'd have brought in some additional computing power for such an event, should've been easy for them considering they have a cloud deployment. Maybe this gives them greater reason to hire more engineers. I found it impressive that they served bill…
This aside and I'm not starting an argument here, but this very AMA bringing down Reddit pretty badly goes to show that even EC2 isn't the answer to life's scaling problems nor are other cloud services like Heorku.
For those who can't get access to the site, here are his answers so far. I hope you can deduce the questions, jeopardy style: I am Barack Obama, President of the United States -- AMA by PresidentObamain IAmA [+]PresidentObama[S] 4 points5 points6 points 2 minutes ago (0 children) [–]PresidentObama[S] 4 points5 points6 points 2 minutes ago It's hard - truthfully the main thing other than work is just making sure that…
Pretty weak, typical round-about answers that you'd expect from any politician. Not what AMA has come to expect, and what's the proof that it's actually Obama writing the answers and not some intern or campaign staffer?
I'm looking at the sort rank of questions on reddit and they don't exactly feel right. I can't pin point it except to say that a question with 59 upvotes posted 58 minutes ago is ranking higher than a question with 620 upvotes posted 60 minutes ago. Do reddit moderators step in during these situations to supervote questions?
http://blog.reddit.com/2009/10/reddits-new-comment-sorting-s...
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The President of United States is doing a Reddit AMA and all you can do is predict disappointment ? Really? Why bother? If you're wrong, your comment will seem too negative and cynical (which it is). If you're right, well, that'd be disappointing, right? Comments like yours make me want to rename this site Hater News.
Just want to chime in, it looks like Obama is heading out[1] after answering only ten questions. I think it's fair to call that disappointing when the thread had more than 12,000 comments. [1] http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/z1c9z/i_am_barack_obam...
No flying cars or moon bases; just average people off the street able to talk directly to the "leader of the free world" on level ground. Not the future we were expecting, but I'll take it.
While, cool, this is no different than town hall meetings we've had since the inception of the Republic.
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Yes indeed. The scalability of Amazon.com is truly a work of engineering genius.
From what I've heard from Amazon employees, it's barely holding together and hardly genius. Of course, that same scalability (AWS) is what powers Reddit and dozens of other major websites.
It looks like the Obama AMA has really caused some serious fires in reddit's backend infrastructure. The site's been down for the last 10 minutes. I would've thought that they'd have brought in some additional computing power for such an event, should've been easy for them considering they have a cloud deployment. Maybe this gives them greater reason to hire more engineers. I found it impressive that they served bill…
Stupid question: is the because reddits backend is in python? I often hear that PHP + varnish is only limited by the size of the pipe. Can this scale on cloud platforms?
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While, cool, this is no different than town hall meetings we've had since the inception of the Republic.
Well, it used to be you had to travel to D.C., or the president had to travel to your area.