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by tcfhgj 1295 days ago
it has not been designed for scale because a single instance temporarily couldn't scale up fast enough?
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No, because a single instance needed to "scale up" at a very small user count.
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It really needed to replace a defective set of SSDs. They migrated because they were already planning to, but, with a replacement set of disks, it could continue serving more users for longer and migrate on a more relaxed schedule.