this is why calling programmers "engineers" isn't even wrong

[rone]

We can safely do 150 writes/sec/storage node. IR alone was attempting 330 writes/sec/storage node. We dialed back IR traffic and stopped seeing 503s for writes. However, reads were still seeing 503s. This was because we were doing full table scans.

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[xlerb.livejournal.com]

I'm sure there's a perfectly analogous situation for civil engineering. But that usually means killing people, so it doesn't happen as much.

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[notr.livejournal.com]

the Chorallaries (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ecQ2zJqrFw)