People love to hate on ticketmaster but I bet every Friday at 10am they are handling traffic spikes in the millions, if not tens of millions. And that's not even considering whatever sort of clearinghouse they have to match buyers with their tickets.

thought scavenger. corporate trickster. software designer. here to fart around. bryanking.blog

got damn former engineer at ticketmaster laying it all out there. bookmarking to read it all later: camriley.com/ticketmaster/

anyways, ticketmaster is probably one of a dozen or two companies in the world that's prepared to manage all of that, and certainly the only company of it's type that'd be ready.

Filing them under "Companies that seem evil, but are doing the lord's work" alongside Pantone, Adobe