Session details
Black Week Without Blackouts: Lessons from Scaling Our Backend
Advanced
Architectures
Back-end
Cloud
English
Every year, Black Week puts backend systems under extreme pressure. In this talk, I'll share how our team prepared for a massive traffic spike: from building realistic performance tests with k6, to analyzing results, and turning those numbers into concrete capacity plans. You'll learn how we estimated the number of instances needed, validated scaling strategies, and avoided last-minute surprises when the load hit.
