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Tony Stubblebine

I wonder if we will talk much about the technical aspect of launching. It's hard to have a discrete switch-on moment because load testing requires loads that are defined by network activities. So we've been soft launched for awhile.

And then there's no real sense of what overloads the servers so we want to ramp up over days/weeks. I can't imagine the uncertainty of going fully live or the waves of new signups that big instances got recently.