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World Congress 2026 Europe • Jul 10, 2026 • Session details

Super scaling for the Super Bowl: How to survive 30 million users hitting your backend in 30 minutes

Irina Branovic

A Super Bowl ad triggered 100,000 requests per second. Auto-scaling was too slow. Discover how aggressive graceful degradation and load balancer sharding kept this Go backend alive.

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