FROM THUNDERING HERDS TO SMOOTH STREAMS: HOW PATREON SCALED FOR LIVE EVENTS

Summary from the TLDR Dev newsletter

Patreon scaled its platform to support live events by addressing the challenges of handling a surge of users. Its team focused on understanding and quantifying load, creating a load test to measure capacity, and then optimizing both infrastructure and client performance. To improve infrastructure, they fine-tuned web requests and reduced requests made at cold app launch for iOS.