Every region peaked at the same moment during World Cup matches, so Meta could not borrow spare capacity from quieter parts of the world.

Months of load tests on 100+ services, extra capacity held in reserve, cutting non-essential background work in the busiest countries, and early warning alerts. Teams kept shipping code throughout.

Netflix's systems are too large for any one team or dashboard to understand, which makes finding the cause of a problem slow.

A knowledge graph, a connected map of services and how they relate, built from a shared vocabulary describing the systems.

A bot can prove who runs it and still ignore a site's rules or overload it.

A system that watches over time whether verified bots follow robots.txt rules and slow down when a site says "too many requests", and turns that into a trust rating.

Its AI recommendation model searches many possible answers at once, and its first serving software could not make full use of high-end GPUs.

Work with Nvidia on TensorRT LLM, plus a way to pass each listener's taste into the model as a compact summary instead of long text.

Security filters can only allow, block or log traffic, so teams build extra proxies to handle special cases.

A new Forward action that sends matched traffic to a customer's own Cloudflare Worker code, with custom checking functions coming later.