We watched a client’s e-commerce platform collapse under 4,000 concurrent checkout requests during a flash sale. The MySQL primary instance hit 100% CPU utilization, locks escalated, and response times exploded from 120ms to 18 seconds. The root cause wasn’t missing...
In our last production audit for a client handling 12,000 requests per second, their Time to First Byte (TTFB) suddenly exploded from a crisp 45 milliseconds to an unbearable 3.8 seconds. The frontend team blamed Cloudflare. The CDN team blamed...