The average response time of the current primary occasionally blips for a moment and impacts other bits of the infrastructure, including a small 5xx spike on the production site. The spike tends to be quite short but it is still uncool.
from overview for alienth /r/announcements/comments/7xozuw/when_this_post_is_1_hour_old_reddit_will_go_down/dua0s2c/
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