Digital Resilience Beyond Cyber Week

It’s not just the U.S. that participates in high-traffic digital shopping — Click Frenzy, modeled on Cyber Monday, takes place on an Australian e-commerce platform. Similarly, November 11 is a massive shopping event for Singles' Day in Asia. December 26th (Boxing Day) is well-known for dramatic price reductions throughout the United Kingdom and other countries.

It’s critical not to let anything slip. With a rapidly changing landscape, there’s more pressure to find and fix problems faster. This leads to both security and observability challenges:

The good news is that you can prepare for traffic if you know traffic is coming. Then, once the traffic slows, you can scale down.