Subject: Re: [boost] [GitHub] List open pull requests for all libraries? [resend]
From: Daniel James (dnljms_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-05-15 02:36:28
On 14 May 2014 23:56, Niall Douglas <s_sourceforge_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> On 14 May 2014 at 11:31, Vladimir Prus wrote:
>
>> > How hard is this page to generate?
>> > Is this something that can be generated "on the fly"? (instead of every day/hour/request/whatever)?
>>
>> There's 123 repositories, so if 40 people hit the page within an hour,
>> we're out of the limit. And I would guess if any link it posted to ML,
>> the number of people who will click it will be higher than that.
>
> A varnish reverse proxy would fix that in a cinch. Simply set a TTL
> of two minutes.
The response time for requests that aren't cached would be terrible,
and it would be likely to fail whenever github is overwhelmed.