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by Terribledactyl 3160 days ago
I think the main benefit is the middle point. It sounds like they have programs with huge memory footprints and (I’m guessing) caches that take a while to warm up. This lets them avoid that. Fraud detection is probably time sensitive and slow responses aren’t acceptable.
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They could transfer the cache data from one (old) server instance to another (new) one.