Premiere spike

A premiere dropped: 4× the usual video demand, all in the same minute.

What happens#

A premiere dropped: 4× the usual video demand, all in the same minute.

How to prevent it#

Tiered caching at the CDN, reserved capacity, and load shedding.

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

  1. Tiered caching
  2. Priority load shedding