abadidea“the EU government servers are melting under the load of mastodon users going absolutely nuts with enthusiasm for civic participation” is a great problem to have 😂
ity [unit X-69] - VIOLENT FUCK@0xabad1dea one might wonder what did they mess up for the servers to melt under the load of even a few million users if they are literal EU servers with unimaginable budget
@ity they don't have unimaginable budget, nor should they. You don't spend hundreds of thousands of extra euros from tax money on massively over-provisioning your informational web servers year-round in case they unexpectedly get really popular for a few hours.
@0xabad1dea I disagree - the servers should dynamically scale and be able to handle the expected demand, including peak.
@ity who is sitting around fiddling with setting all that up and testing it and maintaining it in case, again, the site gets kind of slow for a few hours once out of the blue? If the site were going to be this massively popular on a recurring basis, they'd figure something out. But this literally happened in the time between lunch and dinner today and there's no reason to expect it to recur any time soon, and as far as I know the site didn't even fail to load for anyone, just got pretty slow. So there's no problem, and trying to solve a problem you don't have with overengineering can only create new problems
@0xabad1dea well, I disagree, dunno what else I can say really
Random Damage 🌻@0xabad1dea @ity best case here is if they could have been running lighter weight software that would scale better
But that's not exactly a thing these days, either, especially when you need to run validation checks on your input right away