The fact that this was at all possible, while staying online all the way, is a huge testament to the quality of Google PaaS
People are giving a lot of shit to the Niantic guys, but seriously, would *your* app have scaled to larger than Twitter in 5 days?
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It took Twitter many years to get there, and countless Fail Whales had to be slain in the process
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at a minimum they could've planned better
#failwhale s!pic.twitter.com/zckBuec9nQ
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I mean if they don't fix it soon, does become a problem. But of course
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seriously, does that not make this the fastest scaling app in human history?
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My servers: no. But the many client bugs are independent from scale. They'd have them with 1000 users, too.
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(Bad statistic. Not "larger than Twitter". Percentage of active users is not the same as number of users, especially for new apps)
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@_ericelliott Server scaling was not the prob. But starting in 26 countries with servers already nearly down was. Bad management. -
That said you cannot give shit to a free to play app. Pay a fee and you can start complaining :)
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