Failure and scaling

Explore how failure scenarios change the illustrative request arithmetic for a URL shortener. Adjust assumptions and pick a scenario to see what changes.

Assumptions

Baseline

Daily requests

Peak multiplier

Read %

Hit %

Scenario

Illustrative arithmetic

Your tradeoff

What changed between Normal and this scenario? Name one tradeoff or failure consequence.

Worked traces and limits

All numbers are illustrative arithmetic: fixed multipliers and percentages, not measured throughput, latency, server count, or availability. Exercise inputs and text are not uploaded or stored.