# 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:

- [Tiered caching](https://wiki.playquorum.dev/research/tiered-caching.md)
- [Priority load shedding](https://wiki.playquorum.dev/research/load-shedding.md)

## Facts

SEV2 Premiere spike
- **First Era:** [Series A](https://wiki.playquorum.dev/eras/series-a.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/premiere-spike