// Hacker Noon · 15 May 2026

Building a Mission-Critical Integration Blind, Part II: 100,000 Requests Later

We loaded 100,000 real requests into production. Peak CPU: 0.047 cores per container. Only 6% completed in the first hour—the rest waited on the external system (expected given its 5‑day SLA). Our queue hit 150k messages, but adding worker replicas gave near‑linear throughput. Discovered a missing c...

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