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Hug of Death

November 6th, 2023 (12 months ago) • 1 minute

I initially saw this quote on HackerNews where people congratulated others by saying Congratulations on your first Hug of Death! and I didn't really understood it.

What it really refers to is:

When you show-off your site in a public forum and it gets so much traffic that it crashes.

Hug - From people showing interest

Death - Application crash

Some ways of preparing for HoD prior to Show HN:

  • Serverless
  • Caching
  • Pre-rendering ie Cloudflare edge
  • CDN for assets
  • Running extensive load tests