We’ve have many stress tests over the last year or so. The NBA finals saw around 400 people watch the Celtics win. We’ve adjusted the server code to handle events like that without issues. The Olympics present a totally different stress test . Major sporting events like the NBA post season occur in bursts. There is a game or two for a few hours every other night that everyone watches. The olympics are the opposite of that. NBC broadcasts it all day so there are now people watching LocalTV all day in a way that we have never seen before — regular day time TV is never that compelling. This is a good long term stress test. At any given moment there appear to be a few hundred people watching the Olympics. But the world keeps moving, so while there is a new constant load from the Olympics the usual other bursty things are also happening like the Red Sox v Yankees game on Saturday night. So far nothing has broken.
The huge spike below consuming a 1 TB data in a day is the Olympics. The smaller bump on the 4th of July was the pops concert.
