Polish Amazon Offers Deal So Good Their Servers Implode

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  • A look into how Allegro, the Polish version of Amazon, handled a sudden surge of traffic due to a one-of-a-kind deal.
    Sources:
    blog.allegro.tech/2018/08/pos...
    android.com.pl/sponsorowany/1...
    www.gsmmaniak.pl/868392/honor...
    antyweb.pl/honor-7c-za-1-zl-a...
    Chapters:
    0:00 Intro
    1:17 Front-end
    3:01 File descriptors
    6:25 Reserved capacity
    Corrections:
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    Music:
    - Cool Vibes by Kevin MacLeod
    - Firecracker by LEMMiNO ( • LEMMiNO - Firecracker ... )
    - Smooth by Silent Partner
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 298

  • @PS3PCDJ
    @PS3PCDJ 5 місяців тому +205

    0:22 "One Polish unit of currency"
    Bro, I can't

  • @alangamer50
    @alangamer50 6 місяців тому +805

    One of the first instances of this series where the problem wasn't caused by utter negligence and instead by a minor blunder. I mean, the engineers even pre-scaled their servers preparing for disaster

    • @kubastachu9860
      @kubastachu9860 6 місяців тому +78

      Honestly Allegro is one of the best services considering the technology behind it. Starting with their own cloud infrastructure, which ironically in this case was the reason the cloud engineers recruited from working on other infrastructures might have hadn't the experience to scale properly.

    • @mr.cauliflower3536
      @mr.cauliflower3536 6 місяців тому +6

      ​@@kubastachu9860Yeah. As for treatment of warehouse workers...

    • @kubastachu9860
      @kubastachu9860 6 місяців тому

      @@mr.cauliflower3536 Allegro is a marketplace, where individual sellers list their offers. Warehouse workers in Poland don't have it that bad. Many employers who never thought of themselves as pickers or packers actually love working for Polish e-commerce businesses, because it's lightweight job. I have never heard of cases of exploitation attributed to amazon warehouses. There are also lots of logistics and fullfilment centers, as well as Allegro owns their official store and offers Allegro fulfillment to sellers recently, but as far as I know most logistics employees are fully satisfied with their job, many e-commerce owners also becoming delivery couriers and similar cases.

    • @Murloc017
      @Murloc017 6 місяців тому +8

      @@mr.cauliflower3536 Allegro has it's own warehouses!? I thought it was more like e-bay.

    • @mr.cauliflower3536
      @mr.cauliflower3536 6 місяців тому +2

      @@Murloc017I think it has some, which would make sense with them offering free shipping.

  • @dealloc
    @dealloc 6 місяців тому +618

    I don't know Allegro or whether they have had any controversies but not only did they fix the issue within 25 minutes, they even gave vouchers for the very phone to people who couldn't make the purchase. Pretty darn good if you ask me.

    • @YdenPL
      @YdenPL 6 місяців тому +1

      Yeah Allegro has pretty good customer support, handles shipping and returns extremely well, overall the experience is very good. I almost always use Allegro for online shopping, just because they make the shipping and returns easy.

    • @YdenPL
      @YdenPL 6 місяців тому

      Yeah Allegro has pretty good customer support, handles shipping and returns extremely well, overall the experience is very good. I almost always use Allegro for online shopping, just because they make the shipping and returns easy.

    • @kubastachu9860
      @kubastachu9860 6 місяців тому +21

      interesting how they were able to track down each single failed purchase even during an overload, innit?

    • @Chromana
      @Chromana 6 місяців тому

      @@kubastachu9860 Just because some services were failing doesn't mean all were. Perhaps the basket handling service was fine and registered a "checkout" event but the payment services were failing.

    • @dealloc
      @dealloc 6 місяців тому

      @@kubastachu9860 Queues are a marvellous thing :)

  • @Real_Halo_MC
    @Real_Halo_MC 6 місяців тому +1110

    Unironically one of the best channels out here

  • @3rdalbum
    @3rdalbum 6 місяців тому +549

    When I recently wrote a support ticket system for my department, I always had in the back of my mind "If this failed, what would be in Kevin Fang's video about it?"
    I can honestly say it made me more conscious about how I was designing the thing.

    • @Airdel
      @Airdel 2 місяці тому +4

      "probably it wasn't going to be that bad"

  • @MarylandResident
    @MarylandResident 6 місяців тому +265

    Congrats on 100k. You still deserve many more.

  • @pdlbackup
    @pdlbackup 6 місяців тому +240

    I love the amount of effort that goes into these videos. I literally sometimes have to rewind a bit just incase I missed a joke in the edit.

    • @notlarvi
      @notlarvi 6 місяців тому +3

      didn't expect to see you there

    • @hpfxd
      @hpfxd 6 місяців тому +2

      so true 🐟

    • @notlarvi
      @notlarvi 6 місяців тому +2

      @@hpfxd i'm big fan hpf

  • @rusnuker
    @rusnuker 6 місяців тому +58

    Kevin posted, the day is saved

  • @P4ncake_.
    @P4ncake_. 3 місяці тому +61

    As a pole I love how you just skipped reading the word "ZŁOTY" ❤️

    • @Qoobon_
      @Qoobon_ 3 місяці тому

      I dont. He could just say PLN. People do sau USD after all

    • @mysteriousluck
      @mysteriousluck 3 місяці тому

      @@Qoobon_ exactly, or he could have said how much it was worth in dollars when reading it at the start, as in "for around 25 cents", which would have fixed the issue _(and I'm from Poland too, I understand not knowing how to say something but he could have 1. learned how to say the single word or at least 2. just said PLN, as you said)_

    • @illford6921
      @illford6921 15 днів тому +1

      ​@@Qoobon_yeah but realistically this is such a minor issue and isn't wholly relevant to the point. You can switch it to any currency or even anything and it would work

  • @marekd6763
    @marekd6763 6 місяців тому +482

    Nie spodziewałem się historii z Allegro na tym kanale :D

    • @ThundaAaAaAaAaAh
      @ThundaAaAaAaAaAh 6 місяців тому +72

      Chyba nikt się nie spodziewał i to jeszcze z polskimi źródłami

    • @pecet
      @pecet 6 місяців тому +23

      Nasi tu są

    • @nbudzinski
      @nbudzinski 6 місяців тому +23

      @@pecet Zawsze byli

    • @marekd6763
      @marekd6763 6 місяців тому +40

      @@pecet Brakuje tylko komentarza "Polska przejmuje ten film" ;)

    • @xccr2
      @xccr2 6 місяців тому +4

      No witam @@pecet

  • @sitdown.listen.3358
    @sitdown.listen.3358 5 місяців тому +28

    Allegro is the best marketplace btw. Ebay or Amazon aren't even remotely close to be considered good in Poland and that's a fact 💪
    My Allegro account is over 11 years old now with hundreds if not thousands of orders and I've never had ANY issue. Not even once. I've got such a big respect to them that you can't imagine. I always wondered why they haven't spread into European market.

  • @Cmanorange
    @Cmanorange 6 місяців тому +41

    i'm glad you don't shy away from going into deeper explainations for common parts we take for granted. i know other youtubers mention that when they go more in depth retention falls, but i always enjoy learning in a new way. i already knew most of the file desc information but your explanation will make it easier for me to tell others how they work. keep it up kevin!

  • @twei__
    @twei__ 6 місяців тому +67

    Good Video! I hope you will make one about the recent Cloudflare outage where PDX-04 failed. As usual, they mad a post mortem that is pretty fun to read

    • @maskrtnik01
      @maskrtnik01 6 місяців тому +1

      Thank you for suggestion. I have looked up the article, seems like an interesting read.

    • @DryBones111
      @DryBones111 6 місяців тому +3

      Cloudflare could sustain this channel with weekly uploads.

  • @turtleidiot3324
    @turtleidiot3324 6 місяців тому +51

    please never stop making videos. genuinely some of the funniest (at least to the IT niche) and most informative videos out there

  • @Safeboot
    @Safeboot 6 місяців тому +26

    Holy moly, a Kevin Fang video, this is rarer than the fucking solar eclipse. Lemme get popcorn.

  • @c8ff
    @c8ff 6 місяців тому +17

    can't wait for the allegro zone tour by kevin

  • @sgas
    @sgas 6 місяців тому +22

    1:54 love that bit and so much more, love your edits.

  • @SomeoneCalledDT
    @SomeoneCalledDT 6 місяців тому +17

    i actually never expected a video about Allegro of all things, let alone such a wild occurence i never knew about despite our family's frequent use of it, quite a pleasant suprise though

  • @jp46614
    @jp46614 5 місяців тому +4

    This is probably my favourite channel right now please keep these amazing videos up!

  • @gamecuber6
    @gamecuber6 6 місяців тому +3

    this video is unironically really interesting and just well put together, and you just earned a subscriber.

  • @spacewolfjr
    @spacewolfjr 6 місяців тому +48

    I love the Aqua Teen Hunger Force-style explosions whenever things go wrong (for those that don't know, most of the time if a character threw something on the ground it would explode for no particular reason)

  • @crusaderanimation6967
    @crusaderanimation6967 6 місяців тому +8

    Didn't expect to see allegro here, and honestly that's probably first time i see foreign chanel even mention Allegro.

  • @Error-403
    @Error-403 6 місяців тому +4

    I love your animations and fake code screenshots, you never fail to entertain!

  • @RobTheQuant
    @RobTheQuant 6 місяців тому +28

    Top shelf videos Kevin, the edits are tight, keep them coming! 👍

  • @ARockRaider
    @ARockRaider 5 місяців тому +3

    i love these!
    its like a "disaster recap" show but for computing instead of buildings or transport!

  • @eddydude100
    @eddydude100 3 місяці тому

    Always enjoy your videos, great work.

  • @babymusk
    @babymusk 6 місяців тому

    great vid as always keep it up man i love watching how you create funny storys about IT

  • @tianlamian
    @tianlamian 6 місяців тому

    i was looking for this channel for a while thank god you uploaded again

  • @fleshinterface
    @fleshinterface 6 місяців тому

    pristine editing style, love your vids!

  • @PanCynik
    @PanCynik 6 місяців тому +27

    I love this channel and in-depth analization of failures

    • @ZENBONES1991
      @ZENBONES1991 6 місяців тому +12

      catastrophic misspelling here 🤣

    • @SunnyShuklathedoctor
      @SunnyShuklathedoctor 6 місяців тому

      ​@@ZENBONES1991analization ❤️

    • @dvlabsakie3484
      @dvlabsakie3484 6 місяців тому +1

      Analysis 😭 (please don't edit to fix the word I got a nice chuckle out of it)

  • @csehszlovakze
    @csehszlovakze 6 місяців тому +36

    mfw Kevin can't pronounce *złoty*

  • @Samuftie
    @Samuftie 6 місяців тому +1

    Dear creator, thank you. Please keep the videos coming.😊

  • @KaneryU
    @KaneryU 6 місяців тому

    finally a new vid! all your uploads are so good😊

  • @Tentri
    @Tentri 6 місяців тому

    Another banger video, keep up the great work

  • @albertfrengki
    @albertfrengki 5 місяців тому

    i like this guy effort to tell us story but with comedy
    keep this quality we don't need fancy editing

  • @khyododev766
    @khyododev766 6 місяців тому

    This is amazing, I love this

  • @kasparbaktat964
    @kasparbaktat964 6 місяців тому +3

    Did not read about this event back then, but very informative. Everybody can learn lots of stuff from your videos. Not sure, if it really fits in your scope, but do you plan a video about M$s master key incident?

  • @nothingtoseehere93
    @nothingtoseehere93 Місяць тому

    I love this channel. It’s like fireship but for security and infrastructure and that’s a good thing. You guys should collaborate and truly break the internet (by causing the monthly cloud flare outage)

  • @telefactfiles5430
    @telefactfiles5430 6 місяців тому +1

    Please upload more. Your videos are so good 🙏🙏

  • @vincentfiestada
    @vincentfiestada 6 місяців тому +18

    Please continue this series. You're like the @MentourPilot of software disasters!

    • @iamvinku
      @iamvinku 6 місяців тому +5

      Although my only connection to aviation is as a passenger, I still enjoy his videos. It's the same with Kevin Fang's videos except it's a lot more relevant to me.

  • @szymoniak75
    @szymoniak75 6 місяців тому +3

    didnt expect u covering a polish service, cool

  • @piotrdarnowski5190
    @piotrdarnowski5190 6 місяців тому +1

    Out of everything I wouldn’t expect our lil allegro here ;)

  • @adjikuncorobhangun8063
    @adjikuncorobhangun8063 3 місяці тому

    Love the classic explosion sound effect.mp3 as always 💻💥

  • @pwn3r1
    @pwn3r1 6 місяців тому +8

    as a pole, hearing Allegro be called "polish amazon" makes me laugh lmao

    • @phusicus_404
      @phusicus_404 6 місяців тому +1

      Why?

    • @tennickjestzajety69
      @tennickjestzajety69 6 місяців тому

      @@phusicus_404 because Allegro is combination of Amazon and eBay, especially that second. Allegro from the beginning was auction website like eBay, shops was added later. Amazon and eBay also tried to introduce itself here in Poland, but strength and influence of Allegro is too high. In Poland we buy mostly on Allegro or Aliexpress.

  • @DomskiPlays
    @DomskiPlays 6 місяців тому

    100k subs?? damn! YOU DESERVE IT THO

  • @StickBugger
    @StickBugger 6 місяців тому +5

    polish amazon really dropped the price of a €200 phone to 20 cents ☠️

    • @xsanos2586
      @xsanos2586 3 місяці тому +1

      But only 100 phones for that price

  • @DFsdf3443d
    @DFsdf3443d 3 місяці тому +2

    never knew there was a file descriptor limit. Does that mean any single process web server is by default limited to 1024 active connections?

  • @Nico-qq7xl
    @Nico-qq7xl 6 місяців тому +2

    Where do you find these stories? Such a great work. 👍

  • @AbdelrahmanRashed
    @AbdelrahmanRashed 6 місяців тому

    This stuff is golden

  • @AiOinc1
    @AiOinc1 10 днів тому

    6:00 I remember the "FILES" arg in MS-DOS. Glad I don't have to even think about it anymore.

  • @hummel6364
    @hummel6364 6 місяців тому +2

    3:16 damn this guy has unlocked the legendary octary computer

  • @realdragon
    @realdragon 6 місяців тому +2

    The power of Janusz broke internet

  • @theycallmepitt
    @theycallmepitt 13 днів тому

    I've been to Allegro zone in 2019. Well, I never thought I'd ever say that in my life.

  • @bobermcboberson810
    @bobermcboberson810 6 місяців тому +5

    BABE, WAKE UP!! ANOTHER POST MORTEM FROM KEVIN FANG!!

  • @player400_official
    @player400_official 6 місяців тому +9

    Uwaga uwaga. Film znajduje się w rękach Polski.

  • @dr.robertnick9599
    @dr.robertnick9599 6 місяців тому +1

    I gingerly await your video about the recent Optus outage. There must be something funny happening there

  • @Alexifeu
    @Alexifeu 6 місяців тому +1

    i would love to have modern hole punch cards would be so cool. Id buy a modern hole punch machine ad the necessary paper. Absolutely loved the video so funny but also good explanations.

  • @Rickety3263
    @Rickety3263 19 днів тому

    lsof has always been my favorite command

  • @wintrywind
    @wintrywind 6 місяців тому +2

    wake up babe new kevin fang banger dropped

  • @gaspy9760
    @gaspy9760 6 місяців тому

    Yes !! I missed you

  • @ishaanhiranandani226
    @ishaanhiranandani226 6 місяців тому

    This coming out the day after the Optus disaster is perfect

  • @olgierd2001
    @olgierd2001 6 місяців тому +2

    just gotta say the allegro zone on the Woodstock/ Pol and Rock festival is pretty good was 3 times there already (very nice festival btw and its FREEEEEE )

  • @egoriv183
    @egoriv183 6 місяців тому

    amazing video!

  • @pe1ucas
    @pe1ucas 6 місяців тому +1

    3:10 hahahahaha!!! I wasn't expecting that :D

  • @gasparsigma
    @gasparsigma 6 місяців тому +2

    Why is there a 7 in the binary sequence 😂

  • @timothygostony7415
    @timothygostony7415 4 місяці тому

    All of Kevin's videos are bangers but the Vsauce reference at 3:13 is excellent

  • @byznes7428
    @byznes7428 3 місяці тому

    5:35 I love you my dude

  • @ElectericSpace
    @ElectericSpace 5 місяців тому

    That was one of the most consise but still usable explanation of linux files I've seen

  • @RRanun
    @RRanun 6 місяців тому

    They also made some amazing short films.

  • @tetrisgonzo37
    @tetrisgonzo37 6 місяців тому +1

    as Allegro worker, I can confirm

  • @nbtm_sh
    @nbtm_sh 6 місяців тому +3

    pls do a video about the national Optus outage in Australia (once there is more info published)

    • @3rdalbum
      @3rdalbum 6 місяців тому +1

      Absolutely; the largest telecommunications outage in Australian history. 10 million customers* across mobile, landline POTS and NBN could not get even basic service for 8 hours. Optus landlines couldn't even ring the emergency phone number 000. The post-mortem on that will be very interesting indeed.
      *10 million customers affected, and Australia's population is 27 million. More than a third of the country.

    • @nbtm_sh
      @nbtm_sh 6 місяців тому +1

      ​@@3rdalbumid hope that theyll publish technical details about what went wrong. I feel like this time they might given the pressure from the Australia government

  • @MintPixels
    @MintPixels 6 місяців тому +2

    allegro rządzi

  • @Rainbow-
    @Rainbow- 6 місяців тому +1

    "Deals so good our servers imploded!"

  • @moltony
    @moltony 6 місяців тому

    I love these videos

  • @DonaldSubert
    @DonaldSubert 5 місяців тому +1

    @Kevin, would you consider, please, doing a video on how the rebooted MySpace music platform lost all of their data in a botched migration?

  • @LeeZhiWei8219
    @LeeZhiWei8219 6 місяців тому +4

    Great video! Similar instances of these scaling problems are ticket master and concerts too. Since their web server instances failed on a couple of times, when fans bought tickets. For various artists. Also, I took my Amazon CCP! So I think I understand what's happening in this video hahahaha.

  • @Mitsunee_
    @Mitsunee_ 6 місяців тому +6

    way too much of my backend/infra knowledge is coming from these videos, they are just so close enough to reality that my silly brain can understand them as realworld examples :)

  • @Bartek2OO219
    @Bartek2OO219 5 місяців тому +2

    you should mention it's not just polish version of amazon, it's much better than amazon

  • @hasanpatel9029
    @hasanpatel9029 6 місяців тому +1

    Love your videos man, don't know if you ever gonna see this comment, but wanted to leave a shout out as your videos taught me a lot and encourage me to pursue a career in Cybersecurity and I finally manage to land a job as an Identity and Access Management Developer.

  • @not_hehe__
    @not_hehe__ 6 місяців тому +1

    ayyy new video lesgooo

  • @siddharth-gandhi
    @siddharth-gandhi 6 місяців тому

    Goated SDE channel.

  • @Sa1985Mr
    @Sa1985Mr 6 місяців тому +5

    "one Polish unit of currency" hahahaha - how long did you spend looking at the phonetic spelling of zloty before opting for this

  • @caduhidalgo4996
    @caduhidalgo4996 6 місяців тому

    Hold up!
    Does the Twillio question are related to this?
    (Nice video btw)

  • @asbfabfoaijfo8
    @asbfabfoaijfo8 6 місяців тому

    vry nice and gud explanation

  • @siennathesane
    @siennathesane 6 місяців тому +1

    I used to be a maintainer of their open source cache software

  • @iwillgettableflipped
    @iwillgettableflipped 6 місяців тому +6

    Am I the only one that noticed a 7 in the binary data at 3:17 ?

    • @KurryMuncher
      @KurryMuncher 6 місяців тому +1

      just searched through the comments to see if anyone else noticed

  • @pabloenriquegorga4222
    @pabloenriquegorga4222 6 місяців тому

    cool video, thanks for it !

  • @PfeffergrubenNick
    @PfeffergrubenNick 6 місяців тому

    Lemmino music, very nice

  • @matthias8000
    @matthias8000 6 місяців тому

    Another great Video

  • @jacobclark288
    @jacobclark288 6 місяців тому

    These are such good videos

  • @Froschkoenig751
    @Froschkoenig751 6 місяців тому

    The memes are strong with this channel!

  • @rgbmew
    @rgbmew 6 місяців тому

    another banger vid

  • @jm-alan
    @jm-alan 6 місяців тому +1

    A Kevin Fang video going live on the day that I release a very large, complex, scale-oriented change to production is some apocryphal shit 😅

  • @mateuszkolpa
    @mateuszkolpa 6 місяців тому +1

    Great content, great jokes, great job :))
    Liked and subscribed.

  • @violetwtf
    @violetwtf 6 місяців тому

    kevin are you planning on making a video on the recent cloudflare outage?

  • @Mar_Ten
    @Mar_Ten 6 місяців тому

    Amazon ad on the video. Perfect

  • @bush2137
    @bush2137 5 місяців тому

    I remember that day like it was yesterday, did not manage to buy a honor for 1 zł

  • @rampage_sl
    @rampage_sl 6 місяців тому

    I never understood file descriptors before this

  • @retrostyle2
    @retrostyle2 6 місяців тому

    We love a good punch card reference.

  • @JohnPaulBuce
    @JohnPaulBuce 2 місяці тому

    thanks, plus the humor is so good 💀