A systems design perspective on why chess.com's servers have been melting

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January 2023 was a rough month if you wanted to play chess on the most popular chess website, chess.com1. Their service has been experiencing an unprecedented amount downtime because of a huge influx of users2. There have been days where it's all but unusable. It's frustrating as a user! It's also surely frustrating for the business behind the...