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| Ivo is the CTO of Ibuildings. He implements company strategy regarding tools, technology and development processes. Ivo is the contact for several key customers and partners, and a regular speaker at conferences. |
Donderdag, 23 april 2009Surviving a plane crash - The nu.nl case study
About 2 months ago, Erik Snoeijs posted a story about the NU.nl backend, a project we did for the largest news site in The Netherlands.
Back then, we already planned to write a follow up post about the front-end technology. Where the back-end focuses on flexibility and ease of use for the Nu.nl editors, the front-end focuses completely on very high performance and getting the news out to the site's readers as quickly as possible. About 2 weeks after that first blog post, a dramatic event occurred when a plane crashed near Amsterdam Schiphol airport. Events like that send an enormous amount of traffic to news websites, and NU.nl had to deal with about 3 times as many visitors that day as they normally would. It was the first real-life test of the architecture that we had built.
Peter, the architect from Ibuildings that designed the architecture for the NU.nl system, has finally found some time to write about the frontend system, and has posted an article on our TechPortal where you can read about how he dealt with the performance requirements and the tools he used to meet those requirements. If you have any questions about the architecture, feel free to post them to his article and he'll answer them (to the extend that he's allowed to of course  ).Share         |
