Burst-Tolerant Infrastructure Planning: How to Handle Traffic Spikes Without Paying for Idle Capacity
Executive Summary: Burst-tolerant infrastructure is the practice of absorbing sudden demand spikes without sizing every system for peak usage all month long. The most reliable designs combine delivery-layer shielding, elastic compute, buffered application flows, and a data layer that fails predictably under pressure. For hosting teams, the real goal is not just higher capacity; it […]