IMO, they probably failed way before 100x expected usage. It was probably before 10x expected usage. This isn’t crazy. This is a problem that happens for a lot

IMO, they probably failed way before 100x expected usage. It was probably before 10x expected usage. This isn’t crazy. This is a problem that happens for a lot of teams dealing with scale. You engineer for 1x (checking off requirements) and anything over that tears everything to shreds. The difference between developing a solution on your local and hitting your PERF environment is massive. e.g. I can’t run a TB DB on my local, so... if I don’t see queries running in less that 10ms-100ms, I basically know that the queries are never going to complete in PROD. Scale is hard.