Progress Update
First the good news. The work our team has done on the servers has really improved things. We’ve greatly increased the capacity of our systems both by increasing the number of servers that we are operating with, as well as reorganizing how the data on the database cluster is accessed and updated. We have […]

So here’s the deal. [keep in mind this is a simplified explanation of a really complex problem]
The problems we fixed last week had to do with throughput. When those bottlenecks were fixed, it increased the load on the servers by a truly significant amount (average load was higher than our highest peaks–ever). Which is fine. […]