When 10,000 shoppers smash your store at 12:00 PM for a limited product drop, default database schemas don’t gently degrade. They catch fire. In our last infrastructure audit for an enterprise merchant, we saw MySQL CPU usage spike from 4%...
In our last production audit for an enterprise merchant, we watched their primary MySQL instance hit 100% CPU utilization in under forty-five seconds. The trigger? A scheduled flash sale dropping 5,000 requests per minute onto a single product page. The...