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This is my issue though. They setup a monolith structure where 1 primary node (whether that be networking or servers) is providing services to everyone. That even includes Canada - so when there is a networking issue in the US all the Canadian AutoTrader partner sites are down as well.

AutoTrader should have asked for dedicated servers for Canada, that's on them.


In today's world, it is so much easier to solve this problem.

You can have every request go to a different server, even while they share the same database and cluster file storage.

Their architecture is very dated and has proven that it worked back in the day, but clearly something has been less reliable lately.




You're too attached to the past ;)

Dealer.com is still Dealer.com - this is still their issue.

The team that used to be there and the company that you worked for are not responsible.