London tube feed halted by huge demand

[Juha-Matti Laurio <juha-matti.laurio () netti fi>]

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/070510-london-tube-feed-halted-by.html

"Transport for London (TfL) has had to suspend access to the underground train departure data
after demand for the feed overloaded the organisation's gateway system.

The data was made available on 15 June to third-party application developers keen to market what is a precious
information resource to London travellers, but demand through the London Datastore proxy
has exceeded expectations in a matter of days.

> From an initial 180,000 requests, traffic soared to 10 million hits per week, overloading servers..."

Yep.
 
Juha-Matti
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