How a $12M AdTech Platform Buckled Under 5M RPS and a Data Breach

https://bizzmarkblog.com/why-temporary-urls-and-expiring-tokens-break-at-scale-lessons-from-production-incidents/

In late 2023 a mid-stage adtech company, AdStreamX, was handling traffic that spiked unpredictably between 500k and 5 million requests per second (RPS)