On Thursday 4th February 2016, West Ham United Football Club's official ticketing system, http://www.whufcboxoffice.com, was displaying the following queuing page to visitors:
If you have some form of user response time monitoring in place for your website you may often see step changes in response times. Perhaps by a few seconds, maybe by more. Here’s a real world example:
Hardly a week passes without another major online brand suffering from cyber-attacks of one form or another, with distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks becoming more and more common. Last Friday HSBC’s online...
‘Move fast and break things’ is a development mantra popularised by Facebook and picked up with enthusiasm by software development teams both small and large. The idea is that if you aren’t breaking things you’re...
The post Xmas period is typically a busy period for online retailers with peak trading around the Boxing Day and New Year’s Day sales. In our experience up to 1% of the annual online sales revenue can be seen on...
The UK National Lottery web site crashed on January 9, 2016. This blog discusses the likely impact and measures to avoid crashes in the future.
Camelot Group have been operating the United Kingdom’s national lottery...
