10,000 Unlocks in 5 Minutes: Surviving a Viral Traffic Spike on a Creator Platform.
This case study explains how a creator-platform architecture handled 10,000 PPV unlock attempts in five minutes without a database timeout. Learn how idempotency keys, message queues, entitlement services, connection pooling, reconciliation workflows, and decoupled media delivery help creator platforms prevent duplicate charges, protect transaction integrity, and scale reliably during viral traffic spikes.
