http://simonwillison.net/2008-06-29T14:12:56+00:00Simon Willison2008-06-29T14:12:56+00:002008-06-29T14:12:56+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2008/Jun/29/spikes/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://www.lethargy.org/~jesus/archives/118-Dissecting-todays-Internet-traffic-spikes.html">Dissecting today&#x27;s Internet traffic spikes</a></strong></p> Theo Schlossnagle on how the increasing popularity of interest aggregation services such as Digg and Reddit result in traffic spikes that dwarf the old Slashdot effect, making a the old rules of thumb for capacity planning irrelevant. <p><small></small>Via <a href="http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2008/06/the-new-internet-traffic-spike.html">O&#x27;Reilly Radar</a></small></p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/capacity-planning">capacity-planning</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/digg">digg</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/reddit">reddit</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/scaling">scaling</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/slashdotting">slashdotting</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/theo-schlossnagle">theo-schlossnagle</a></p>