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36 show receives an overwhelming amount of web traffic , with many sites crashing as a result . This was a huge opportunity OakNorth had the infrastructure to seize , and the team got to work taking advantage of both a can-do attitude and scalable architecture . “ We architected our current technology to scale horizontally ,” Nooriala explains . “ You can bolt on more and more hardware as you need , without having to change the actual code .” The company spoke with partner
AWS to add more infrastructure for the anticipated surge , as well as bringing the launch date of its new ISA product forward in time for the show . A dedicated team worked throughout the weekend and when Monday arrived , at OakNorth ’ s TV mention traffic on the website spiked over 50 times . “ Nothing crashed , nothing slowed down . People started to deposit money , exploring the ISA product . When you ’ re a brand new bank that ’ s architected correctly , when you build yourself in the cloud ,
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