Deadline day

The contract's deadline landed: every agency sent its work at once, 3× the usual demand.

What happens#

The contract's deadline landed: every agency sent its work at once, 3× the usual demand.

How to prevent it#

Reserved capacity, load shedding, and a Queue for the deadline work.

The postmortem opens the first of these that you do not own yet:

  1. Priority load shedding
  2. Autoscaling