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Fatal Success:
The Bottleneck.

When tripling your sales in one hour means losing your business. The story of a viral launch that brought a traditional server infrastructure to its knees.

Client [FASHION E-COMMERCE]

Incident Server Crash (Traffic Spike)

Root Cause Monolithic Architecture

Solution Serverless Auto-Scaling

Phase 1: The Collapse (07:00 PM)

root@server:~# top PID USER %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 823 mysql 102% 85% 120:03 mysqld > WARNING : High CPU Load (Load avg: 25.4) > CRITICAL : Out of Memory. > CONNECTION REFUSED. Site is DOWN.

During their biggest Black Friday event, the client's site went dark exactly 4 minutes after the newsletter launch. The traditional VPS couldn't handle the 50,000 concurrent users.

Phase 2: Liquid Architecture

Migrating from a "Server-in-a-Box" to a "Serverless Infrastructure" on Google Cloud.

DAY 1

Decomposition

Separating the Frontend (Storefront) from the Backend (Inventory & Logic).

DAY 3

Auto-Scaling Logic

Implementing Google Cloud Run to spin up instances only when needed.

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