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Re:Slack is down by darkerside on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @12:03AM (#25642300)
People returning to work and downloading a huge backlog of messages from the past two weeks.
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Re:Slack is down by pgAdmin4 on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @07:06AM (#25644683)
As an Microsoft Teams Ex-Dev, I can vouch that message retrieval after vacation puts a lot of stress on storage systems before it stabilizes :)
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Re:Slack is down by darkerside on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @12:34PM (#25648128)
Yeah, makes sense. A system typically optimized for performance and real time delivery is suddenly asked to perform multiple batch retrievals in large chunks. Ouch!
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