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by bretpiatt 2243 days ago
The sum of the national unemployment systems, generally built prior to cloud scale out architecture, were able to handle 25x normal traffic load (5M claims vs. 200,000 in a normal week, even 2008-2010 peak was 700,000 claims).

Dislike Oracle all you want, even many cloud architected applications would fall over with a 25x traffic increase in a single week (remember Fail Whales?).