brianboyer Brian Boyer
High-traffic app driven by tabletop.js? Bad idea? Can the Google Spreadsheets API handle election day? :) cc @jkeefe @dangerscarf

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A_L Al Shaw
@brianboyer @jkeefe @dangerscarf Why would you risk it? Have a task that grabs the sheet and uploads it to s3.

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jsvine Jeremy Singer-Vine
@A_L @brianboyer @jkeefe @dangerscarf Co-signed. Tabletop is fantastic for prototyping, but is asking for trouble in production.

August 8, 2012 #

brianboyer Brian Boyer
@A_L Can you point me to an example of using a non-Google URL w/ tabletop.js?

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A_L Al Shaw
@brianboyer oh, we don’t use tabletop js, but you could have a script that pulls google’s js and mirrors it so tabletop expects the same fmt

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brianboyer Brian Boyer
@A_L Gotcha. I was thinking that may be the way. Thx, dude!

August 8, 2012 #

AlexGraul Alex Graul
@brianboyer you could use dataset misoproject.com/dataset and then you can just swap out the importer when you go from one to the other.

August 8, 2012 #

brianboyer Brian Boyer
@AlexGraul I like that idea even better. Thx!

August 8, 2012 #

AlexGraul Alex Graul
@brianboyer awesome! Any issues drop me or @ireneros a line, always looking for more feedback :)

August 8, 2012 #

dansinker dansinker
@brianboyer @jkeefe @dangerscarf I know @maboa has run some pretty high-traffic stuff off tabletop.

August 8, 2012 #

jsvine Jeremy Singer-Vine
@dansinker @brianboyer @jkeefe @dangerscarf @maboa Counterpoint. HTTP errors intermittently borked the Guardian's Facebook IPO interactive.

August 8, 2012 #

dansinker dansinker
@jsvine @brianboyer @jkeefe @dangerscarf @maboa To be fair though, that's thematically consistent with the actual Facebook IPO!

August 8, 2012 #

jsvine Jeremy Singer-Vine
@dansinker @brianboyer @jkeefe @dangerscarf @maboa Zing!

August 8, 2012 #

jkeefe John Keefe
@jsvine @dansinker @brianboyer @dangerscarf @maboa We've had no problems in production, but use @A_L's trick for elex, hurricanes, etc.

August 8, 2012 #

brianboyer Brian Boyer
@jkeefe @jsvine @dansinker @dangerscarf @maboa @A_L Roger, wilco! Thanks!

August 8, 2012 #

dangerscarf j soma
@jsvine @dansinker @brianboyer @jkeefe I daresay @maboa has the secret error-handling version of tabletop that I never upped to the repo

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