Checking my tax return online today...
imgur.com/a/7VdST
imgur.comPosted Mar 10, 2018, 12:22 PM UTC
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imgur.comwhat am I looking at?
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The new year returns just got published... It looks like the whole Denmark is trying to access the site at once, with >140k requests queued.
Just a general grump.
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So, you get like a pre-filled tax return from the state and they also can't manage web traffic properly?
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You have a tax office again?
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I don't get it. If your number is only valid for 10 minutes, but the waiting time is 47 minutes, does it mean that you'll be placed at the end of the queue after 10 minutes?
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The 10 min starts when your number is up. It's a grace period. You have to accept in those 10 min to get into the website.
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That makes sense. Thanks.
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35 minutes for me over here.
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Danish personal taxes are such a pain compared to in Ireland tbh, one of the few things I don't miss
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Like FilePlanet in the 90s
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How many days do you have to check your return?
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Is there an old lady taking pictures of the tax returns and showing them to you over the Internet?
Why is there a queue for an online service?
because too many people on a website crashes it, hence you put a queue up so it doesn't crash.
Better servers or riot! ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ
Or hire me to implement scalability :P
How? Those are tax returns so highly sensitive data. A cloud service is out of the question methinks
Geographically based sharding would be a pretty obvious first step, also I'm not sure they are actually secret.
You don't need to move to a third-party cloud, all that does is it asks another provider to solve your scalability problem for you.
You just scale with your own servers. The service is available via the Internet anyway, adding more servers does not (necessarily) increase your risk profile.