Well, to be fair maybe they didn't have enough notice to spin up additional instances and get replication completed beforehand but I highly doubt that consideri

Well, to be fair maybe they didn't have enough notice to spin up additional instances and get replication completed beforehand but I highly doubt that considering how high profile this AMA is. The US President doesn't probably drop in on people / or websites :P Yeah GAE might work better but they're a bit out of reach mostly due to the technologies that you are required to use. Any migration at that scale is a seriously massive matter. I guess the funny thing is that you can't plan to grow that big. Usually it just happens suddenly (facebook/reddit style) and then you've got to make some tough architectural calls. It's funny how folks are like "That's a problem I'd like to have..". I'm not sure they're very happy with this problem at this very moment.. sigh