How to Survive Black Friday: Preparing e‑commerce for Peak Season

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Describes preparing an e-commerce platform for Black Friday peak season, focusing on configuring autoscaling and load balancing and the key operational aspects to monitor. Presents real-world load figures for Silpo and the concrete solutions that let the system handle peak traffic without outages.

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1. 0:00Peak load experience
2. 3:38High-load period definition
3. 4:45System capacity analysis
4. 5:49Performance bottlenecks
5. 9:03Testing lessons
6. 13:41Auto-scaling automation
7. 16:36Auto-scaling issues
8. 18:23Compensating critical flows
9. 21:59Compensating flow results
10. 22:21Backup messaging systems
11. 23:25Closing remarks

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