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Max Levchin
At some point, given the architecture of the system, you will have what's called an oversubscription of front end connections to the back end. And the back end will start choking because even if front end doesn't do anything, just holding these connections is expensive. If you have like a 10x mismatch, you're going to bring down the database. And that is what happened.
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