Holds 3,000 people arriving in the same minute.
Infrastructure for 3,000-user peaks
- Sector
- Education
- Duration
- 3 months
- Role
- Head of DevOps · design and delivery
Where it started
A Laravel web app whose traffic was not steady but spiked: campaigns that brought thousands of people in within the same minute. An architecture sized for the average fails at exactly the moment that matters.
The decision
All infrastructure defined as code, so the environment is reproducible and does not depend on manual steps. Deployment across multiple availability zones, so losing one does not take the service down. On the ingress path, rate limiting and SQL injection protection: peaks attract traffic that is not users, too.
What came of it
The infrastructure holds 3,000 people arriving in the same minute. And because it is defined as code, the team can stand up an identical environment to rehearse before each campaign.
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