[andersa]

> At Apple Pay, we processed millions of daily transactions across 30,000 servers

Why does it require 30,000 servers to process millions of daily transactions? Is there a typo in the amount?

[dworks]

Maybe globally spread out POS servers if that's how it works?

[carefree-bob]

This can be read in two different ways

[xarope]

I have previous CTO experience in the POS space, you would be right on both counts.

(till this day, I can walk into a shop, look at the POS screen and identify if its one of those visual basic/PHP/windows XP compatibility mode required stuff).

[jaxn]

i also first thought of point of sale servers