Episode 12: Rush Hour at the Harbour — Autoscaling Under Pressure 📈





The Night Traffic Tripled and NOBODY Woke Up 🌙


3:47am. A major news outlet shared our link. Traffic went from 500 requests/second to 1,800 in four minutes.

Old world: servers would collapse. On-call engineer would get paged. Panicked scaling. Users angry. Post-mortem...