I feel really bad for this article. It is the Kobayashi Maru of sales pitches. Working in IT/DevOps/Servers/Software Dev/Etc all my life, I understand that even

I feel really bad for this article. It is the Kobayashi Maru of sales pitches. Working in IT/DevOps/Servers/Software Dev/Etc all my life, I understand that even if you have the servers, scaling can be hard and time consuming. I also can't even imagine supporting the number of people they have. So they did an awesome job. However, the Pokemon Go player in me says "Wow, even with all of Google's resources, they still couldn't manage to get this remotely stable for several weeks?". I'm sure there was many amazing technical feats that occurred, and from a deeply technical level this is a good sales pitch. I'm sure a good sales person could spin it even better "50x your expected traffic? Google Cloud can do that!". But beyond that... most people will probably see this as a failure.