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Re:IRS electronic filing system breaks down hours before mid... by vinhboy on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @02:40PM (#16861090)
Oddly coincidental because I just spent all last night reading about distributed computing for Uber's payment system.

I can't imagine the government system has more load than Uber.

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Re:IRS electronic filing system breaks down hours before mid... by orvtech on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @03:36PM (#16861569)
It is not the same traffic pattern, Uber sees a regular stream of request keeping their caches warm, Yes they might see 2X or 3X spikes every now and them but in proportion these are smaller than the spikes that the IRS will see today.
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Re:IRS electronic filing system breaks down hours before mid... by sp332 on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @03:07PM (#16861320)
From information on https://www.irs.gov/e-file-providers/modernized-e-file-overv... it doesn't seem to have been contracted out.
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Re:IRS electronic filing system breaks down hours before mid... by heinrichf on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @04:37PM (#16862100)
Where did you read about that ?
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Re:IRS electronic filing system breaks down hours before mid... by vinhboy on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @05:49PM (#16862617)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16852295
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