Vercel × Shotgun

Vercel x Shotgun, 200x traffic spikes without the panic

The Bottleneck Fit-proofRisk-proofWritten narrativeChallenge-Solution-ResultsOther

Why it works

The story is clean Bottleneck: Shotgun had demand (ticket drops) but one constraint (manual scaling on Heroku) choked it, and removing that constraint released what was already there. The 200x traffic spike figure makes the constraint vivid without needing a before/after revenue metric. There is a secondary Risk-proof thread in the migration framing, but the case study leads hard on unblocking, not on surviving a risky switch.

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The concrete spike magnitude (200x in a few minutes) anchors the bottleneck immediately and makes the stakes legible to any engineering or product reader without requiring revenue data.

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Vendor Vercel
Customer Shotgun
Industry Other
Format Written narrative
Structure Challenge-Solution-Results
Medium Web page