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Their website crashed within 15 minutes of\nlaunching their promotion, resulting in 6 hours of downtime and an estimated $2.3M in lost sales." }, undefined, false, { fileName: "", lineNumber: 4, columnNumber: 1 }, this), "\n", _jsxDEV(_components.p, { children: _jsxDEV(_components.strong, { children: "The root causes were systemic:" }, undefined, false, { fileName: "", lineNumber: 8, columnNumber: 1 }, this) }, undefined, false, { fileName: "", lineNumber: 8, columnNumber: 1 }, this), "\n", _jsxDEV(_components.ul, { children: ["\n", _jsxDEV(_components.li, { children: "Static infrastructure provisioned for average load, with no auto-scaling capability" }, undefined, false, { fileName: "", lineNumber: 10, columnNumber: 1 }, this), "\n", _jsxDEV(_components.li, { children: "Monolithic application with a single PostgreSQL database as the bottleneck" }, undefined, false, { fileName: "", lineNumber: 11, columnNumber: 1 }, this), "\n", _jsxDEV(_components.li, { children: "No caching layer -- 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_jsxDEV(_components.li, { children: "Added full-page caching for product catalog pages with intelligent invalidation" }, undefined, false, { fileName: "", lineNumber: 44, columnNumber: 1 }, this), "\n", _jsxDEV(_components.li, { children: "Optimized database queries, reducing average query time from 120ms to 8ms" }, undefined, false, { fileName: "", lineNumber: 45, columnNumber: 1 }, this), "\n", _jsxDEV(_components.li, { children: "Configured rate limiting and circuit breakers to prevent cascade failures" }, undefined, false, { fileName: "", lineNumber: 46, columnNumber: 1 }, this), "\n", _jsxDEV(_components.li, { children: "Deployed image optimization pipeline reducing page weight by 60%" }, undefined, false, { fileName: "", lineNumber: 47, columnNumber: 1 }, this), "\n"] }, undefined, true, { fileName: "", lineNumber: 43, columnNumber: 1 }, this), "\n", _jsxDEV(_components.h3, { id: "phase-4-load-testing-and-black-friday-preparation-week-9-12", children: "Phase 4: Load Testing and 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