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My Facebook feed this morning was filled with friends at home watching Disney+ with their children because of the snow days closing schools across the country. I know scaling a service on Day 1 is difficult but I imagine their load is much higher than expected.

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If a snow day is enough to overload their servers, I don't think they would stand a chance on the weekends.

It's a day one launch of a huge product. I'd imagine they chose a Tuesday release so that they could have time to understand their own scaling issues before the weekend, a freak cold front seemed to sabotage that grace period and yet they responded well.

Disclosure, I'm a software engineer. I also own Disney stock. No insider information, just how I'd have planned a huge release like this.

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