A story of a rescue, under time pressure.

A story of a rescue, under time pressure. “At first glance the hardware should have been easily able to deal with the load. … the (former) CTO thought the system was working A-ok. Meanwhile users were leaving or screaming blue murder and the management was getting seriously worried about the situation being out of control and possibly beyond repair, an existential threat if there ever was one.”
via the interesting discussion at
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8814253
http://jacquesmattheij.com/saving-a-project-and-a-company