A few weeks? Really? I don't believe that, but it's really a moot point until they hire more people. I thought of a couple other technical points that I'd like

A few weeks? Really? I don't believe that, but it's really a moot point until they hire more people. I thought of a couple other technical points that I'd like an informed opinion on. What should their permanent data store look like? Nik, in the TC comments, says a custom built BigTable or sets of SQLite. Those things are interchangeable now? And what are best practices for upgrading their infrastructure. I was at MasterCard when they switched data centers and the switch was seamless. Of course that required a completely new set of hardware, not rushing servers to the new building in shopping carts. Pretty much everyone I can think of who's seen these types of problems works in the financial services industry.