A learning platform that survives enrolment day
This is an illustrative blueprint, not a client project. It shows how we would approach the problem; the figures below are goals we would aim for, not results.
What we would aim for
Auto
Scaling with demand
Offline
Ready mobile app
Lower
Idle cost
The typical problem
Fixed servers are too big for eleven months of the year and too small for the one week that matters. The result is a high bill and an outage on the busiest day.
How we would approach it
- Identify which workloads genuinely suit serverless, and which do not.
- Put enrolment and notifications behind a queue, so a traffic spike waits rather than fails.
- Load test against realistic peak traffic before the real peak arrives.
- Build the mobile app to cope with poor connectivity.
What you would own at the end
An architecture that scales down as well as up, load test results, and dashboards that show what is happening during the peak.
Risks we plan for
Serverless is not always cheaper. Steady high traffic can cost more than reserved servers, so the decision is made per workload, with the arithmetic written down.
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