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How CourseTable Survives Shopping Period | Aryan Sharma

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CourseTable is a student-run course discovery platform that allows Yale students to view course evaluations, build class schedules, and compare them with friends. Nearly all of Yale's 6,500+ undergraduates use the tool, and it serves 21M+ requests a month at peak.

CourseTable is a student-run course discovery platform that allows Yale students to view course evaluations, build class schedules, and compare them with friends. Nearly all of Yale's 6,500+ undergraduates use the tool, and it serves 21M+ requests a month at peak. The site is built and operated entirely by a team of student volunteers, and our code is open source. In this article, I'll give a high-level overview of our architecture, and explain how we keep the site alive during peak traffic. Shopping period. Every semester, Yale has a shopping period: a few days where students begin…

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