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The Elon / Trump interview on X started with an immediate tech disaster (www.theverge.com)
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Musk claims there was a DDOS attack on X โ€” but The Verge is told there was not.

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[โ€“] xavier666@lemm.ee 15 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I remember a year back they just turned "off" their microservice architechture (Musk: "Why are we burning so much money in this microservice?"), or the part which allows for autoscaling as per incoming load. So the servers just reached 100% utilization and crashed.