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You figure they would have just turned the servers up to eleven. At least in such a volatile time period.

• eropple 7y ago
  It's pretty easy to find yourself creating bottlenecked points of failure in systems that expect consistency. There may not be the knobs necessary to scale up past a certain point. A sufficiently bad positive feedback loop can also drive you into the ditch no matter how monstrous your hardware is.