On Wed 06 Mar 2013 04:55:34 PM EST, Richard Hughes wrote:
On 6 March 2013 21:48, Máirín Duffy <duffy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Can you help me understand why packaging them all into one package is a
preferable solution to having a web service provide them?
If you return 40 items in a GUI, you need to do 40 RPC calls to a
service, and get back 40x10k icons, assuming they are not cached due
to being shown in a previous search. Downloading 400k of data for each
new search destroys any ability to do search-as-you-type, as the icons
flicker from gtk-broken to the actual icon as they load (sometimes
changing size as they do that).
Also, 1000 users (conservative estimate) hammering a single server all
at once just doesn't scale. That requires a ~300Mb/s downlink to a
single server. Packaging them up as a package allows us to use our
existing mirror network with a local cache, which means there's no
central point of failure.
No central point of failure but screenshots which you previously
suggested was be served via the web.
--ryanlerch
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