I realized how insanely popular she is when half my workplace stopped working to try to get tickets for her shows on the assigned hour the tickets dropped for a show 5 hours away by car.
40 minutes from identifying the outage to completely rolling out a fix is impressive, gotta hand it to them. I'd love to get a look into their deploy process.
They went through a spectacular system-wide crash a few years ago with Jeffree Starr cosmetics - similar circumstances (despite knowing it was coming, the sale took down storefront and admin for merchants across the platform) and probably learned a few things from that experience. There's some interesting* behind-the-scenes footage on YouTube from that crash: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTCOoVApM_U&t=1811s
*arguable, but I think it's interesting if you've ever been involved in a high stakes ecommerce launch
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[ 1.7 ms ] story [ 38.9 ms ] threadWow. That is some next level entertainer scale.
Average resale value for TSwift tickets is $1600+ [1]
[1] https://money.usnews.com/money/personal-finance/spending/art...
*arguable, but I think it's interesting if you've ever been involved in a high stakes ecommerce launch