> They could probably have solved this by scaling out, but I'm not going to fault their diagnosis or response. Just want to add that EC2 instances aren't exact

> They could probably have solved this by scaling out, but I'm not going to fault their diagnosis or response. Just want to add that EC2 instances aren't exactly cheap either when it comes down to it. I'm sure budgets are tight at Digg. Far better to first try to solve the problem with refactoring than throwing more hardware at it.