Last.fm Blog: Quality Control

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85 points·alex_c··18 comments

I LOVE the analogue meter. Very retro...

That is a freakin' awesome setup! I love the bears and the monitoring displays in the operations room.

Is the analog response-time meter in units of deciseconds?

Seems so. It says "(ds)" underneath it. And judging by their site's responsiveness, it certainly doesn't seem to be milliseconds.

You're saying that last.fm has a 15 second response time?

No, 150 deciseconds would be 1.5 seconds.

I hope you don't work for NASA :)

Oh, whoops.

That would be centiseconds :p

That would be awesome to work at Last.fm... Live in London and get payed in Euros! :D

They don't use Euros in London.

Some places take them... at a punitive exchange rate :)

Pounds... even better? You knew what I meant.

The atmosphere here makes you not want to bother posting sometimes to avoid being thrashed by nitpicks

Computer people put a high value on precision because a single semicolon is the difference between a working Linux kernel and a jumble of compile-time errors.

simply cool

Fresh!

Its all good and all and hazardously I say the word 'top'.

Top is an amazing tool, don't get me wrong but its very limited. The major flaw of top (and its not really a flaw) is that Top is limited to one machine. When you have a cluster of say 20-300 you need more powerful tools.

Also top doesn't measure things like the current latency and other things they need to know at the moment.

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