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ashray on Sept 15, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: GitHub availability this week

What prevented you from just caching the status page and then refilling the cache manually every X seconds ? I'm sure a status that is a few seconds old given the system wide meltdown wouldn't have been an unreasonable compromise ?

erichocean on Sept 15, 2012 [–]

Or memcache, with one worker dyno dedicated to updating it, cron-like.

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