I suspect they didn't expect the onslaught of registrations *at all*. They'd figure an 'x'-number of visits to the google-io website, an 'y'- number of registration attempts and yet another lower number of actual registrations(=a known number, while 'x' and 'y' are unknown but can be guessed from previous years). Then spread these number over about 50 days (from previous years), or maybe over 10 days.
I think this is what they scaled their servers for (wrongly or correctly). And even if they got the numbers 'x' and 'y' somewhat right (i think 'y' was way larger than expected), it was all sold-out in 59 minutes, not 50 days. This is more than 1000 times faster than expected. The scaling of their servers may have been totally wrong. 50 days versus 59 minutes... and i wonder how many registration attempts there were. On Feb 7, 4:54 pm, Felipemnoa <[email protected]> wrote: > Didn't know that. Sounds interesting. Your hunch sounds possible which makes > me wonder why such a large company with thousands of servers wouldn't already > have such capability. At least internally. I assume they already do for their > main applications but it is probably not user friendly to set it up for > anything else on the fly. > > On Feb 7, 2011, at 1:56 PM, Tim Mensch <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > On 2/7/2011 11:27 AM, Felipemnoa wrote: > >> Amazon! I wonder why would they not eat their own dog food. > > > Maybe because their dog food requires Python or Java, whereas Amazon EC2 > > can host a Linux box image with whatever tools you want installed on it? > > > Some developers are allergic to Python and Java dog food, after all. :) > > > Tim > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Android Discuss" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]. > > For more options, visit this group > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en.- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en.
