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> On another occasion my machine learning demo API failed due to heavy load, but only when India's prime minister was looking at it.

Okay, I'll bite.

You can't just drop a war story headline like that and walk off. Please expand.



We deployed some machine learning demos via API and they got used in some exhibits for some powers-that-be. But we ran it in the cloud on shared infrastructure like fools, and the code was pretty bad, so it failed due to heavy load while Modi was looking at it. There was an outpouring of anger afterward. Here is Modi staring at one loading spinner. https://imgur.com/a/kLklVZV




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