Black Friday. Cyber Monday. The Super Bowl. Peak traffic events are the ultimate test of your infrastructure. If you're not testing for load before the spike hits, you're planning to fail.

"Your system is only as fast as its slowest database query."

1. Define Your Baseline

You can't improve what you don't measure. We start by establishing a performance baseline under normal load. Metrics like Response Time, Throughput, and Error Rate gave us our 'normal'.

2. Stress Testing

We push the system until it breaks. Knowing the breaking point—whether it's CPU, Memory, or Database Connections—allows us to set up auto-scaling rules that actually work.

3. Chaos Engineering

What happens if a region goes down? What if latency spikes? We inject failures into the system during testing to ensure resilience. If a service fails, it should fail gracefully, not cascade into a total outage.