In the continuing saga of the JavaLobby spin-off dzone.com, I proudly share this on behalf of the iBATIS team...
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Well, at about 6AM that morning it did get hit by a traffic tsunami. It was huge, but when I woke up a half-hour or so later our baby was happily handling everything DIGG could throw at it, and it wasn't even breaking a sweat! It was a huge relief, and I believe it is a meaningful validation of the excellent work of the developers of the open source Spring framework, Apache iBatis and the many other tools we leveraged to assemble dzone.com. If anyone out there is still buying into that "Java is slow. Java doesn't scale." malarkey, then I'll be delighted to sit down with them to set the record straight. The access log was flying by much too fast to read, yet the server was sitting pretty with a load average hovering between 0.3 and 0.5. Matt woke up shortly after I did, and we both heaved a major sigh of relief that the powers that be were smiling on us and on dzo! ne.com. Mike, who is much more of a night owl, was sound asleep until about 9:30 or 10:00 that morning and missed out on some of the fun. (Digg's traffic wave is huge, but bursts very quickly and then tapers off just as quickly.)
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Clinton
