Sure! Not mentioned in that email (and pardon me for banging on about it) is that usage grows 15% monthly, i.e. doubling every 5 months. February is a short month but we will probably hit 130M queries, a 1/3 growth since I wrote that email. Pretty exciting!
We are working on publishing reports and stats about individual packages and things, so this is a good time to work on this. Next steps? Maybe I'll start scribbling down ideas on the wiki? On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 5:25 AM, Noah Slater <[email protected]> wrote: > Man, this is totally great. > > Perhaps we could write it up as a case-study and promote it on our > homepage? > > Does that sound like a good idea? Something you could help with? > > > On 1 January 2013 05:32, Jason Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi, all. Sorry to be distant from the community recently. No excuse. > > > > I thought I might share December stats from one of Apache CouchDB's most > > well-known deployments and killer apps: the Node.js npm registry. > > > > ## Facts > > > > * Zero downtime > > * Three data centers: SoftLayer, EC2, Joyent > > * 99,327,470 HTTP queries served = 37/sec > > > > * Slowest minute: Dec 08 09:35, 578 queries = 9.6/sec > > * Busiest minute: Dec 20 18:43, 19,776 queries = 329/sec > > > > * Slowest second: (many), 0 queries > > * Busiest second: Dec 20 18:43:03, 932 queries/sec > > > > ## Reflections > > > > This is only the public registry. Our customers and also independent > third > > parties run their own replicas. We do not or cannot (respectively) > publish > > their usage stats. > > > > Think about that. Isaac owns the registry. We run the registry. Yet > neither > > of us can even **know** its entire function, much less do anything about > > it. That is empowerment. That is why I joined CouchDB. CouchDB is free > > software for free data. It carries the ideals of the Free Software > movement > > into the 21st century. > > > > Plenty of sites can produce more impressive numbers than these. There are > > even larger CouchDB sites out there. But I am still proud. This is not a > > multi-million dollar venture-capitalized eyeball something something. We > > run standard, orthodox Apache CouchDB. That is encouraging. I did not > > deliver these numbers. Apache CouchDB did. These are not benchmarks. > These > > are production logs. That is nine-hundred thirty-two satisfied customers > in > > one second! (Well, a true sysadmin would say "not-yet disappointed > > customers" which is all one can ask for.) It shows that anybody can wield > > CouchDB to similar effect. > > > > There are general-purpose programming languages, and there are > > domain-specific programming languages. Nobody gets upset because you > can't > > write a web server in YAML. Nobody uses .java configuration files. > > > > Apache CouchDB is a domain-specific database. The npm registry shows: for > > the domain CouchDB addresses, it has no peer. > > > > -- > > Iris Couch > > > > > > -- > NS > -- Iris Couch
