I get the rather bluntly hammered home moral to use safe reliable tech but that misses a lot of subtlety. I think the moral of the story is to load test before

I get the rather bluntly hammered home moral to use safe reliable tech but that misses a lot of subtlety. I think the moral of the story is to load test before you dump a bunch of customers onto your system. Regardless of the tech you use you can easily fail in this regard. And secondly not to value people for the effort they put in but the results they achieve.