"This is something I have been wanting to do since I was about 15, and on Monday I was told I was no longer in the system and my application was void, " he said.
The transformation involved moving from the paradigm in which the application ran with a local file system to an architecture in which any data needed was fetched in advance from slower and more variably performant remote storage and then storing what was needed in memory.
In some cases, the system reportedly led buyers to believe they had been successful in their application, only to find out by email in June 2011 that they had failed.