As the BallSoft Cloud account manager for Radius, Naveen had been growing steadily happier as Radius's usage kept climbing. He and his manager had been hoping for a nice bonus that year.
But now he was rushing to his manager's office in panic. He burst into his manager's office without knocking and blurted, "We are so screwed!"
"Oh, shit!" exclaimed his manager. "Did AI-n-stein file for bankruptcy?"
"Worse!" cried Naveen. "Radius usage just dropped off a cliff. Off! A! CLIFF!"
"What?! How? Why? Were?" asked his managed beginning to sound as panicked as Naveen felt.
Radius's usage had steadily climbed until it represented over three-fourths of all GPU usage across BallSoft Cloud. That level of usage represented millions of credits per hour. Per hour!
"Everywhere!" cried Naveen. "All requests have stopped. It's like they just disappeared off the face of the planet. But when I checked their website, they're still live, and their web-based chat service still works."
