Yeah - I’m not personally a fan of the specific tech discussed in the article - 100 proxy requests/second could be handled by a RPi, but I suspect it was more c

Yeah - I’m not personally a fan of the specific tech discussed in the article - 100 proxy requests/second could be handled by a RPi, but I suspect it was more complex than a simple proxy - but it was pretty clear that this wasn’t really the issue. The point was that the launch was predictably going to fail, it was predicted, and then it failed. And this was due to the kind of arrogant, disconnected management decisions that are sadly very familiar to many of us here at HN.