An EdTech platform routing Mumbai students through Singapore A live-class platform served 200k students across India. Its CDN had no Indian POP on the chosen plan, so Mumbai and Pune traffic terminate…
The retailer that purged its entire cache to fix one price A mid-size electronics store updated prices hourly. Their deploy script did a full cache flush on every change, so one $20 price edit dumped …
A video platform burning bandwidth on thumbnails nobody re-watched A short-video app generated six thumbnail sizes per clip and served them straight from edge to origin on every miss. With 1.2M clips …
A Lagos news site where every breaking story crashed the origin When a big story dropped, traffic spiked 30x in minutes. The article page cached for 60 seconds — but at expiry, thousands of simultaneo…
The gaming forum that ate a 240Gbps flood and stayed up A modding community ran on a single 8-core box in Helsinki. One Friday a botnet pointed a 240Gbps UDP-and-SYN flood at it after a rival server g…
A São Paulo fashion brand shipping 2.4MB hero images to phones The catalog looked gorgeous on desktop and brutal on mobile. Product shots were uploaded as 4000px JPEGs and served untouched, so a shopp…
