| | Here is a graph of the traffic level on a typical web application vs time of the day.
Now here is a similar graph, for highways traffic, for a typical busy highway like 101 on peninsula, or 880 on the east bay, or 50 in sacramento.
Now let's look at what a web app with a good architecture and system design can handle. The red line is what the system will be designed to handle.
(Note that for many good systems, the red line is much higher than that, even.)
Notice that anything lower would be unacceptable as it would cause congestion and down time during peak hours and you run into all sorts of negative things -- including pissed off consumers, people less likely to spend money on your service, you get less profit in general. It's bad. Very bad.
Now, let's look at what a typical highway is designed to handle in terms of traffic level; that is the red line.
Now, I only have one question about this. WHY?
If only the government departments architects are more capable and design better systems -- people would be happier, less grumpy, be willing to spend more money on the society because they can actually GO OUT at peak hours and buy stuff (thus stimulate the economy), cause less accidents (which are because people are angry during traffic), and infinitely more positives.
Sigh. Why are computer scientists always better at everything?
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