Luckily this year I have only 1 item that I want - https://www.dischem.co.za/platinum-humidifier
So I am keeping an eye out
Another thing to consider here, I learnt last year that the 3D Secure payment gateway thing is a contributing factor to the black friday crashes. From what I was told, it canāt handle the load from all the websites and causes some backend issues that went over my head.
It had a cumulative effect; Effectively with payments being slow/timing out the message handling (Apache Kafka if Iām not mistaken is what Takealot uses for this) got clogged up and ultimately just ran out of resources, and this set off a chain reaction (according to good sources) where all their internal systems just failed. This is still an architectural issue, itās still a solvable issue.
Example Black Friday stats; Amazon had a 60% increase in 2017; Likewise Takealot had a 70% increase.
Takealot reported 2.2 million hits on Black Friday. Amazon reported somewhere in the billions. Amazon is probably an unfair comparison.
Sadly Takealot has asked the DevOps Cape Town team to take down the video on YouTube of their Black Friday 2017 post mortem discussion. Would give you perfect insight into exactly what happened.
But to put it into perspective, I currently have one web service that handles ~500k unique hits (note unique) every hour, it handles on average 14 million unique hits every day, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 353 days a year (2 days for maintenance where itās not fully operational)
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Ahhh I only see now no more posting allowed on MyG 
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So dis waar jy rondloop!
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Ek Loop orals rond. Maar as ek lus was om strondt aan te jaag dan gaan ek soontoe en report random posts en post bitjie 
Maar sien posting is orals disabled nou </3
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Ja jy het dit nou ordentlik opgedinges ne!
Skandes!
dis lekker om so elke nou en dan daar in te log. Good ol times
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Yea soos ek gese het, knop in my keel toe ek dai happy happy email van hulle af gekry het sondag
Wonder nog soms oor hoe dit als down gegaan het.
Was dit jou Bday Sondag gewees?
BAIE belated happy bday
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Ag dankie man, ja dit was maar ek maak nie 'n huge fuss oor dit nie 
Ek is net happy as ek dit oorleef
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Iāve created a poll in the Discord to see if anyone cares if we post links to articles there.
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Why, oh WHY is life tempting me like this? Just when I convinced myself that I shouldnāt take advantage of Volvoās Black Friday deals on the XC60, along comes a shiny new silver XC60 and parks right next to me in the basement at the attorneys todayā¦ So now Iām negotiating with my business partner the fact that Iām billing 3x my salary this month and want to put down a little deposit on the car. Just possibly. Not quite decided yet. URGH!
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For info itās called Frequency Illusion. One of my most annoying illusions
Regarding the car, any photos? I know Iām not helping 
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Volvos are apparently very difficult to re-sell. Dealing with a guy now that is struggling.
Yeah they suck with resale valueā¦ But I wonāt be buying it to sell it. It would be for the safety, comfort and longevity. The XC60 is 2018 World Car of the Yearā¦
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Yeah I know of that illusion. Thing is, the XC60 is newly released in ZA and Iāve seen 1 on the road so far. And then a brand new, plate-less one parks right next to me. Didnāt take photos though, Iām not THAT much of a stalker! 
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Do you really need a new car? Can you afford to spend 10k per month on a car?
Do you have your emergency fund, debt, RA, TFSA and other investments sorted out?
That is a beautiful car. Iāve been keeping my eyes on the XC40 for a while now. 
No.
Yes, but with the Black Friday deal the first yearās premiums are paid by Volvo, soā¦
Sort of yes - most of my equity is tied up in my house and business. The business is booming right now and our revenue grew by 150% this year alone. Staff numbers also literally doubled this year. We also just got word of a huge contract that was approved for next year which will double our revenue of this year. So in that sense my retirement is well and truly sorted.
The Chinese-owned Volvo era is really a breath of fresh air. I honestly believe Geelyās injection of funds are doing wonders for the Swedish marque!
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Have a good night all. Check you in the morning.
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