Quote Originally Posted by Ayrie View Post
Each server cluster probably runs off of the SAME code. Each shared data center resource has the SAME code. The beauty of that is that when you do a new code deploy, you can have an automated service go out and push the SAME code to every node, and the update takes minutes instead of hours.
We know this isn't entirely true. They have taken down individual servers before more than once. And you have a pretty poor system if you design it in such a way that you can't take problem pieces down to fix them and have to take the whole thing down every time there is a problem with one area. Which it doesn't appear that they do, since as I mentioned, they've taken just the problem pieces down before.