Sandy was wild. you couldn't get computers for love or money, everything was jammed up. we ended up with whatever hardware configs had been returned and sitting in a dell warehouse just to have enough machines so for a long time after you'd have a rack of the standard build and then a random machine with a fibre channel card.

shocking how much engineering you can get done when the normal process becomes impossible and waiting isn't an option.

"unwittingly reinvented datacenters" What? does he mean for JS or The Street?

This was in 2012, not 2002. Not having your DC in your office was well known by then to be a bad model especially for a DMM, NYSE itself knew this.

I worked for a MM, we were ready to open the next day because we were in actual datacenters.