Hug of death

` /api/hn -> 504 An error occurred with your deployment FUNCTION_INVOCATION_TIMEOUT cle1::c8vgv-1782399959042-aeba3cae05ff `

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docheinestages 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

If this project is an ad for their product (Upstash, promising "Highly Available, Infinitely Scalable"), then the last thing they'd want is a hug of death :/

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ryan_n 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Oof that would be hilarious/tragic

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steve1977 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Downstash

	▲	y1n0 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Must stash

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superxpro12 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

/api/hn -> 502 {"error":"Your database has been temporarily rate-limited, please contact support@upstash.com for further details."}

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arikrahman 21 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I'm also getting /api/hn -> 504 An error occurred with your deployment FUNCTION_INVOCATION_TIMEOUT cle1::48fnt-1782412720840-4855b2b75b5a after a few lookups

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jjordan 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

back in my day we called this a good ole' fashioned slashdotting.

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lysace 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Our startup (~20 people) got slashdotted in 1998 or so. I was the only one randomly awake at the time. Remember watching all the logs from our web server in realtime, ready to immediately kill anything or anyone threatening the overall availability.

512 kbps uplink, I think. Even accidental DoS was trivial. We had a self-hosted little data center at our office with the only available stupidly expensive commercial connection.

Felt some dread having to restart the main (async, single-process) web server a few times to keep things going due to bugs in our code. So many* people on dial-up patiently waiting for the page to load.

It was exhilarating though :).

*) Surely at least a hundred!

	▲	mysterydip 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		One of the things I love about HN is having stories like this in the comments from otherwise random unassuming usernames

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Onavo 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Its funny that these days the bottleneck is usually the data layer. Servers are so powerful now that even your average $5 server can handle HN levels of load if configured correctly.

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Roonerelli 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I get

/api/hn -> 502 {"error":"Search entry should have an initialized schema, command was: [\"SEARCH.AGGREGATE\",\"hn\",\"{\\\"$or\\\":[{\\\"title\\\":{\\\"$eq\\\":\\\"anthropic\\\",\\\"$boost\\\":5}},{\\\"text\\\":{\\\"$eq\\\":\\\"anthropic\\\"}}]}\",\"{\\\"by_month\\\":{\\\"$dateHistogram\\\":{\\\"field\\\":\\\"time\\\",\\\"fixedInterval\\\":\\\"30d\\\"}},\\\"top_authors\\\":{\\\"$terms\\\":{\\\"field\\\":\\\"by\\\",\\\"size\\\":6}},\\\"by_type\\\":{\\\"$terms\\\":{\\\"field\\\":\\\"type\\\",\\\"size\\\":4}}}\"]"}

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ytkimirti 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

We will be with you shortly :)

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aNapierkowski 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

yeah we killed it :(

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