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I doubt they are using EC2, probably buying servers in bulk from IBM or whoever. When you centralise you also have other advantages, such as being able to cach
by jiggy2011 14y ago
I doubt they are using EC2, probably buying servers in bulk from IBM or whoever.
When you centralise you also have other advantages, such as being able to cache the results of previous computations. So if you can structure the computations in such a way as to be fully or partially reusable you can memoize and scale much better.
- dagw 14y agoIf you google for people attempting to reverse engineer the protocol you'll see that they've found that EA is indeed using EC2. It is however unclear if this is a permanent state of affairs or if they're simply using EC2 in an attempt to handle the initial burst of traffic