The challenge
Every release, thousands of buyers arrived in the same sixty seconds. The old system degraded, buyers refreshed, and the load doubled.
What we did
- 1Introduced a fair virtual waiting room with position feedback
- 2Moved inventory reservation into a single atomic operation
- 3Cached everything above the fold at the edge
- 4Built QR check-in that works without a connection and syncs later
- 5Load tested at 3x the largest historical launch
