> A senior engineer should be advocating for that load test at e.g. 150% of the real load. When the total budget is $60K, they probably don't have the time. R

> A senior engineer should be advocating for that load test at e.g. 150% of the real load. When the total budget is $60K, they probably don't have the time. Remember that when Disney (a company with near-infinite resources) launched Plus in the US the account service was only intermittently accessible the first day. And that was after a pilot launch in the Netherlands.