Demo: shedding low-priority traffic during a flash sale
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protect checkout during a spike.
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Step by step
- Generate a flash-sale load test with browse, checkout, and crawler traffic.
- Observe checkout latency collapsing without limits.
- Add priority-based admission control with separate queues and concurrency limits.
- Planned mistake: shed by arrival order, dropping paying customers first; fix by classifying with an authenticated cart header and limiting anonymous traffic first.
- Re-run and compare checkout success rate.
Prepares SRB-005-LAB1.
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