World Congress 2023 • Oct 23, 2023

From 0 to 1.000.000: How to build a serverless raffle service for hyperscale

Marco Plaul , Martin Sakowski

Synchronous serverless APIs fail during extreme traffic spikes. Learn how a store-first architecture decoupling API Gateway and SQS effortlessly scales past 100,000 requests per second without upfront provisioning.

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