This is a great F’in email, Sean! Sent from my iPhone
> On Oct 7, 2020, at 10:10 PM, Constantine A. Murenin <muren...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > On 06/10/2020, Sean Donelan <s...@donelan.com> wrote: >> >> Florida has had notoriously unreliable state I.T. infrastructure for >> years. Florida's unemployment websites were broken for months during the >> Spring 2020 COVID unemployment demand surge. So its very likely crappy >> state I.T. infrastructure problems being stressed by high volume. >> >> >> Florida voting age population (2016): 15,839,713 >> Florida registered voters (2016): 12,863,773 >> Florida registered voters (2019): 13,536,830 >> >> Florida Secretary of State Laurel Lee, who oversees the voting system, >> said the online registration system “was accessed by an unprecedented 1.1 >> million requests per hour” during the last few hours of Monday. > > People act like 1.1 million requests per hour is a huge number. > > That's only 305 requests per second! > > Cheapest NVMe SSDs are capable of 160k+ IOPS. > > You can literally serve the whole thing from a single server on a > 100Mbps line, if you design it properly, and don't waste bandwidth on > stock images and silly front-ends. > > Add a T1 to do replication on the side to an off-site location. > > 100 Mbit/s / 305 req/s = 40 KiloBytes/req -- should be enough to > display/process any form; and you can even get higher speeds on a 5G > mobile phone these days; > > 1.5 Mbit/s / 305 req/s = 0.6 KByte/req -- should be enough to > replicate each registration; and why are we even talking about T1 in > 2020?! > > Keep in mind that 1Gbps (e.g., 1000Mbit/s) is pretty much a minimum > these days, so, you'd either have plenty of extra room to spare, or > can do way more than an average of 1.1 million requests per hour. A > Google search reveals you can even get 10 Gbps transit for only > $900/mo from he.net these days, for example. > > P.S. At least here you may have to collect and distribute unique > information to each visitor; but what excuse did PG&E had in 2019 when > they couldn't distribute non-unique information about the preemptive > power shutoffs that they've had about one year ago now?! > > What I'm always curious about, is how many servers do they actually > have, and just how unreasonable do their numbers look when you lay it > all out. You'd think paying a few mils to design the system could > actually make it work properly when the time comes. Or are they > somehow not aware that they have 16M voters, everyone always doing > everything in the last minute?! > > C.
