[08:38:16] <snitch>	 [[Tech]]; Selin Lara Lotus; [none]; https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?diff=23776351&oldid=23776032&rcid=24934035
[08:44:17] <snitch>	 [[Tech]]; Selin Lara Lotus; Murat Yurdakul; https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?diff=23776377&oldid=23776351&rcid=24934076
[09:12:57] <snitch>	 [[Tech]]; Reedy; Reverted changes by [[Special:Contributions/Selin Lara Lotus|Selin Lara Lotus]] ([[User talk:Selin Lara Lotus|talk]]) to last version by ArchiverBot; https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?diff=23776419&oldid=23776377&rcid=24934160
[22:58:02] <bd808>	 AntiComposite: the explanation for why MediaWiki didn't collapse if roughly that the CDN edge served things from cache and kept MediaWiki out of the loop. ;) But I agree that there is probably a good blog post in the various things that have been updated to make that the case.
[23:04:37] <Platonides>	 AntiComposite: I would think that the PoolCounter protected us from the Queen becoming another Michael Jackson
[23:05:00] <Platonides>	 the issue back then was that the flux of concurrent edits meant that all servers were busy rendering the same page