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Slack’s Outage on January 4th 2021
It wasn't scaling "back up". It was a huge spike as evertone refilled cache at the same time.
It's similar to Black Friday spikes Amazon handles themselves.
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It's similar to Black Friday spikes Amazon handles themselves.