There was one part of the Internet that PAPER didn’t want to break: The part that was serving up millions of copies of Kardashian’s nudes over the web. Hosting that butt is an impressive feat. You can’t just put Kim Kardashian nudes on the Internet and walk away —that would be like putting up a tent in the middle of a hurricane. Your web server would melt. You need to plan.
Decent article, in mostly layman's terms, about how Paper Magazine was able to handle the huge number of crowds flocking to their website to see a dumpster fire.
via Medium - How PAPER Magazine’s web engineers scaled their back-end for Kim Kardashian (SFW)