Not being able to deal with low quality traffic spikes is one of those things that engineers see as a failure, but aren’t necessarily so from a business perspec

Not being able to deal with low quality traffic spikes is one of those things that engineers see as a failure, but aren’t necessarily so from a business perspective when compared with the potential cost of a scalable infrastructure. Not that all spikes are low quality, or even that one on HN ones are. I reckon for some products they are.