[LRUG] e-petitions site

[George Ornbo]

On Fri, Aug 05, 2011 at 09:17:52AM +0100, James Cumming wrote:
> Just wondering if it would be worth while investigating this further as to why this happened and how to avoid something like this happening in future RoR projects. 

Would be intersting to hear what Chris Parsons (who originally posted
this to the list) has to say about this. Perhaps the press had run out
of juice on the Murdoch story so it was time to turn on the government
again? 

> What's the best to test a site for high volume?

There are a couple of old but good videos on this from Greg Pollack

* http://railslab.newrelic.com/2009/06/23/episode-15-load-testing-part-1
* http://railslab.newrelic.com/2009/06/23/episode-16-load-testing-part-2

I seem to remember that the project was a 6 week prototype. Not much
slack for load testing there. 

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George Ornbo
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