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I'm not a server guy, especially for something as big as what we're talking about, but what I meant was issues that the development team could detect on their end. Questions like, "how is our...

I think it would be more likely that companies would use some auto-scaling service in "the cloud". But it's not just a question of supporting sheer numbers. Even if they could let everybody in at...

Fair enough, but I don't think either of these situations is a case of under-engineering or not thinking the problem through. They knew exactly what would happen, made decisions based on their goals,...

To be fair, the engineers and developers on both projects probably expected exactly this to happen. It would be wasteful to design an architecture to support day-one traffic, since in a week or two...