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ericbarrett
1943 days ago
My guess is they have a “thundering herd” problem when a few critical threads get lots of traffic, and any workaround is still manual because it’s delicate surgery. Pure speculation however, I’ve no inside knowledge.
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doublerabbit
1943 days ago
Their webapp isn't exactly the greatest creation too, I feel sorry for the poor little servers that run that site.
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