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by h4pless 3201 days ago
So what? I still got a 500 error while trying to process an order and when I refreshed - sold out. "60% of the time - it works every time" is only good for Panther scented cologne.

12,900,000 / second - WOW. Too bad the request rate was probably closer to 15,000,000 / second and you just abandoned everyone else.

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I don't know what is blowing my mind more: Those numbers, or reading someone on this site reacting to them with a "so what?".
Only 60% of your requests to Amazon went through? That is really really bad. I don't remember hearing of an outage.