but that's not what the article says. it says:

> Setting up our infrastructure to do that is technically straightforward: we need to add more servers to handle a lot of additional traffic on the front end, before people get to content.

as a description of the problem, the above seems kind of nonsensical. Which suggests that even this blogger is in fact, guessing, and then worse just passing it off as an explanation, and then we're back to NASA looking kind of bad here.