I love armchairing as much as the next guy, but this is lazy spam, plain and simple:<p>nslookup api.simcity.com<p>nslookup socket.simcity.com<p>nslookup update.prod.simcity.com<p>Right now these are returning CNAMEs to amazon web services and akamai for me, and I'm told they were days ago as well.<p>If you're going to talk about how EA should have set up SimCity, maybe you should at least look and see how they ACTUALLY set up SimCity and make sure they didn't do the things that you claim would have fixed their problems?<p>EDIT: Also, getting a launch right for a tremendously mass-market product is hard work. Until you've actually done it, it's kind of shitty to stand back and shout simple advice like 'use the cloud' or 'use modern devops practices'. I think that's what really bugs me about this post: The minefold guys probably do have useful bits of scaling advice to share here, but they're burying it under lazy swipes at a big competitor that really aren't justified.
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