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Peloton CEO apologizes after Thanksgiving ride struggles with demand (www.theverge.com)
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Peloton CEO apologizes after Thanksgiving ride struggles with demand::Peloton’s world record attempt on Thanksgiving struggled under the weight of demand, prompting CEO Barry McCarthy to apologize to users who couldn’t attend.

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[–] LOLjoeWTF@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

That's upsetting. Running a load test weeks ahead of time to identify the upper bounds of app and infrastructure would have be a good idea... But 🤷‍♂️ I've lived through large marketing initiatives where us engineers were not involved and didn't forecast a need to scale beyond normalcy before too.