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I used to be a TA engineer. Their pages are not static; almost everything is dynamic. Moreover, their engineering practices are...just awful.

TA java code (used to at least) store every ___location in a giant ___location tree in each server. "Location" includes things like continents and countries and towns and ice cream stores and hotels. Just loading in that much data and creating that many objects took ~10 minutes in part because they insisted on writing their own serialization code but didn't bother to do a good job.




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