on Jan 8th, 2007Re: ProgrammingBooks.org
The programmingbooks.org launch was a success. Thanks to everyone that participated and used the site! Since Friday afternoon it’s had roughly 50,000 page views. I got some great feedback and I am in the process of using the same engine for other kinds of things.
Even though I’ve been programming Ruby on Rails for over 2 years now, this was my first app that has been actually released to the public. I was scared that with all the traffic from digg, del.icio.us, and reddit my server would get overloaded and die, but everything seemed to have stayed up and running minus one minor fastcgi crash in the middle of the night on Friday. In preparation of the first-day traffic, I did a little performance tuning that helped out a lot. All the ranked list queries, sessions, and the category list are cached in Memcached. I looked into fragment and action caching, but it seems like those are a lot of work to do right, and they don’t play well with authentication.
