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Re:AMA with Barack Obama by ashray on Wednesday August 29, 2012 @05:11PM (#4451292)
Well, to be fair maybe they didn't have enough notice to spin up additional instances and get replication completed beforehand but I highly doubt that considering how high profile this AMA is. The US President doesn't probably drop in on people / or websites :P

Yeah GAE might work better but they're a bit out of reach mostly due to the technologies that you are required to use. Any migration at that scale is a seriously massive matter.

I guess the funny thing is that you can't plan to grow that big. Usually it just happens suddenly (facebook/reddit style) and then you've got to make some tough architectural calls.

It's funny how folks are like "That's a problem I'd like to have..". I'm not sure they're very happy with this problem at this very moment.. sigh

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Re:AMA with Barack Obama by mattmaroon on Wednesday August 29, 2012 @05:13PM (#4451316)
I don't know about websites, but the US President drops in on lots of places (restaurants for instance) as a matter of security. From what I understand with interviews, it's often not uncommon for the interviewer to get very little notice either at times.
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