[maaaats]

One of the biggest electronic stores in Norway knew their web page couldn't handle the load, so they had some kind of queue system im front. When I checked, my spot in line was estimated to have to wait more than an hour. They got a lot of flak for it, all other web shops worked fine.

[fpgaminer]

I wonder how much engineering effort went into building that queuing system, versus what it would have cost them to just fix their site so it could scale properly...

[hombre_fatal]

On the other hand, how much hype and commitment does it build for people who decide to sit in queue?

Maybe by the time you sit in queue for an hour, you're more likely to make more purchases than you would have otherwise. Or people feel like they're missing out by shopping on Amazon when they can claim a spot in queue.

We're not all that rational.

[dannyw]

I’ve seen queue-it.com a few times. It’s a managed system that’s like Cloudflare: it sits in front of your site so you don’t need to integrate.

[mips_avatar]

Now I see why microsoft is building so many Nordic data centers.