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danhunter
on Oct 18, 2012
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Github: Major Service Outage
Yep after the last major outage they switched to Heroku
bgentry
on Oct 18, 2012
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They were already running their status site on Heroku prior to the last major service outage.
adgar2
on Oct 18, 2012
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This is correct. They needed ~90 dynos to keep up with about 500 qps on their status page in the last outage.
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http://news.ycombinator.net/item?id=4524489
gojomo
on Oct 18, 2012
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Should probably throw a Fastly or CloudFlare cache in front of a single dyno.
adgar2
on Oct 19, 2012
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That would suggest people in charge know what they're doing.
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