The Effects of Seasonal Peaks and Traffic Surges

So your website just went down because too many people visited it. Congratulations, I guess? This is actually a problem most developers dream of having – until it happens to them at 1 AM on a Saturday.
I’ve been dealing with this stuff for years, and let me tell you, watching your site crash during Black Friday is not fun. But here’s the thing – it doesn’t have to be this way. There are ways to build websites that can handle whatever the internet throws at them.