Ukrainian public services could not cope with record traffic due to Eurovision

MOSCOW, February 4 The incident in the work of the application of the Ukrainian Ministry of Digital Development «Diya» (Ukrainian «Action») was caused by a record number of users who accessed the resource, said the Minister of Digital Transformation of Ukraine Mikhail Fedorov.
Earlier, the Ukrainian publication “Novosti.live” reported that a glitch occurred in the work of “Diya” after the start of voting for the finalists of the selection for the Eurovision music competition.

«Today there was a record number of users in «Die» in the entire history of the project. Instead of 800 requests per second, as was the case during voting in last year, 15 thousand requests,” Fedorov said, his words were quoted by the Ukrainian publication “Strana” in the Telegram channel.

As the publication notes with reference to Fedorov’s statement, server capacity was increased five times, but requests were received 20 times more.
«I apologize for this situation. We will do a detailed review, analysis and implement organizational changes to be prepared for such waves of traffic,» he added.
Eurovision is an international music competition that takes place under the auspices of the European Broadcasting Union.