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Thundering Herd
Your entire client fleet shares the same scheduled config refresh, and the clock has just struck the top of the hour. Every client is hitting the API gateway at the exact same instant, request volume has spiked far beyond anything your average traffic would suggest, and the auth service is struggling to keep up. Diagnose the synchronized spike and stop it from overwhelming the gateway again next hour.
- Difficulty
- Senior
- Expected Time
- ~12 min
- Category
- API & Traffic
Skills
- Diagnosing synchronized-client traffic spikes
- Jitter and schedule-spreading strategies
- Load shedding vs. capacity scaling tradeoffs
- Recognizing plausible-but-harmful mitigations
System Architecture
- Client Fleet
- API Gateway
- Auth Service
- Config Service
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