Amazon's Secret to 85,000 Orders/Minute | Black Friday Architecture

Explores how high-traffic systems handle massive load spikes by examining failure points across web architecture layers. Covers database connection limits, application server capacity, caching strategies, CDN configuration, and third-party dependencies. Explains cascading failures and provides practical solutions including read replicas, connection pooling, horizontal scaling, load testing, and circuit breakers to prevent system crashes during peak traffic events.