Details please. Maybe you cannot name names but give us a clue.
There's no way AirBnB is going to try to IPO after the Facebook debacle. They must entice someone to acquire them.
The higher the valuation the more enticing. Pump it up!
Pretty much spot on. There is no shortage of people who can do the jobs. That is certainly not the fear being balanced (=Joe Candidate can't do the job). Rather, the fear is that Joe Candidate is not "like me", and that he might change the culture. He is "the other".
But this is not as silly as it sounds. It makes a difference who you have to work with everyday. It's not just about work. In many cases, monkeys could do the work. (In other cases, only a very few people could do the work.) What it's about is being surrounded by "your kind of people". Work environment.
This doesn't just apply to startups.
So being a good recruiter is not just about finding qualified people, it's about understanding "cultural fit" and the particular pyschology (however irrational it may be) of your clients.
If this is just about load balancing, then they could probably get better performance from haproxy, right? Anyone should be able to exceed 200 req/s with haproxy. In fact, you should be able to get around double that or more.
The point is the title is useless. It tells you almost nothing. That blog is a joke.
Life would be soooooo much easier without Microsoft's closed formats. As nice as they are, they are a royal PITA when you are not using Windows. Sometimes you just need the text and images/other embedded media, not the fonts and other window dressing. Those can be added at view time if they are truly needed.
There's no way AirBnB is going to try to IPO after the Facebook debacle. They must entice someone to acquire them. The higher the valuation the more enticing. Pump it up!