Services / Live event readiness
Live event readiness
A live event does not ramp. Everyone joins at kick off, the origin sees a request pattern it has never seen in a load test, and whatever breaks breaks in front of the whole audience at once. Preparing for that is a different exercise from scaling a catalogue service.
What the engagement is
- 01Model the join, not the average, at the concurrency the event will really reach.
- 02Find the single points before the day. Manifest generation, licence issuance and the advertising call are the three that usually bite.
- 03Decide the degradations in advance: what is shed first, who can shed it, what the viewer sees.
- 04Be on the event with you, reading the same dashboards as your team.
What you are left with
A platform that has already survived the shape of the traffic, and a plan for the day.