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They used 40 machines to serve New Year's Eve traffic. Perhaps with a better algorithm, they could have got away with one.
(Possibly not, because there's still a lot of HTTP and JSON munging work to be done, and the network card becomes a bottleneck at some point)
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They used 40 machines to serve New Year's Eve traffic. Perhaps with a better algorithm, they could have got away with one.
(Possibly not, because there's still a lot of HTTP and JSON munging work to be done, and the network card becomes a bottleneck at some point)