I can confirm that Ryan is the current CMO for CCP. I worked at CCP for most of 2007 and was there when he was hired. (Don't forget, CCP and White Wolf merged, and WW makes a lot of pen and paper games!)
Anyway, given what I know of the guy from the few interactions we had, this does sound like something he would write. Still, kind of a shame.
Most of the time those numbers are four or more times that high. It's early in the afternoon, this isn't a peak time.
Anyway, those are only the number of entries being posted. For every entry being posted, there are a ton of inserts actually going on:
* log2 table to contain some metadata about the entry * logtext2 table to contain the actual text * logprop2 table (multiple rows, 3-5) containing other metadata about entry
So, four times the traffic, about 6 inserts each, 2400 updates per second--and that's just for posting entries. We get a lot more traffic from people posting comments (which also do 3 or 4 update/inserts each comment), plus people editing their userinfo, uploading new userpics,...
While LiveJournal definitely isn't a huge site, it's not a lightweight, and definitely doing pretty good for having around 80 machines and doing 30-40 million fully dynamic page views a day.
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I can confirm that Ryan is the current CMO for CCP. I worked at CCP for most of 2007 and was there when he was hired. (Don't forget, CCP and White Wolf merged, and WW makes a lot of pen and paper games!)
Anyway, given what I know of the guy from the few interactions we had, this does sound like something he would write. Still, kind of a shame.
Most of the time those numbers are four or more times that high. It's early in the afternoon, this isn't a peak time.
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Anyway, those are only the number of entries being posted. For every entry being posted, there are a ton of inserts actually going on:
* log2 table to contain some metadata about the entry
* logtext2 table to contain the actual text
* logprop2 table (multiple rows, 3-5) containing other metadata about entry
So, four times the traffic, about 6 inserts each, 2400 updates per second--and that's just for posting entries. We get a lot more traffic from people posting comments (which also do 3 or 4 update/inserts each comment), plus people editing their userinfo, uploading new userpics,
While LiveJournal definitely isn't a huge site, it's not a lightweight, and definitely doing pretty good for having around 80 machines and doing 30-40 million fully dynamic page views a day.