Keep The System Alive

The bug wasn’t in the code. It was in the traffic. A friend showed me his metrics after a product launch. Nothing unusual in the logs. No obvious errors, Just one thing: A sudden spike in requests. Seconds later…The system went down. The problem The system tried to handle every request immediately. No limits. No control. What was happening? When traffic increased: • every request hit the API • every request hit the database • every process started at once The system didn’t slow down. It overload