# 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:

- [Priority load shedding](https://wiki.playquorum.dev/research/load-shedding.md)
- [Autoscaling](https://wiki.playquorum.dev/research/autoscaling.md)

## Facts

SEV2 Deadline day
- **First Era:** [Seed](https://wiki.playquorum.dev/eras/seed.md)
- **Starts at:** SEV2
- **Escalates to:** SEV1
- **Lasts:** 1.5 min

## See also

- [Incidents](https://wiki.playquorum.dev/incidents.md)

Source: https://wiki.playquorum.dev/incidents/deadline-day