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Unless production loads are non-uniform in time, think Black Friday or similar.


Yup. Quarter end reporting has been going swimmingly for years but this time the orders query is hitting a connection timeout and the numbers are due tomorrow.

That threshold doesn’t gradually creep up on you, it hits you all at once at the worst possible time.




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