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Oddly coincidental because I just spent all last night reading about distributed computing for Uber's payment system. I can't imagine the government system has
by vinhboy 8y ago
Oddly coincidental because I just spent all last night reading about distributed computing for Uber's payment system.
I can't imagine the government system has more load than Uber.
- sp332 8y agoFrom information on https://www.irs.gov/e-file-providers/modernized-e-file-overview https://www.irs.gov/e-file-providers/modernized-e-file-overv... it doesn't seem to have been contracted out.
- orvtech 8y agoIt is not the same traffic pattern, Uber sees a regular stream of request keeping their caches warm, Yes they might see 2X or 3X spikes every now and them but in proportion these are smaller than the spikes that the IRS will see today.
- heinrichf 8y agoWhere did you read about that ?
- vinhboy 8y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16852295 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16852295