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100,000 requests per second handled with zero outages during LA wildfires
Infrastructure dread to confident uptime during crisis
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Why it works
The story earns its Resilience tag because the core win is surviving a catastrophic traffic spike with zero outages, not growing a metric or cutting costs. The wildfire timing gives the narrative a concrete, high-stakes test that most infrastructure case studies lack. The 85% cache hit rate and the accidental mass-alert spike are specific mechanism details that make the outcome credible.
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Use a real-world stress event with a precise timestamp as the proof moment. Framing the product's value around a single dramatic incident (LA wildfires, January 2025) makes abstract infrastructure claims tangible and memorable.
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