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[–] vrek@programming.dev 8 points 5 months ago

Dylan bettle talks about this in one of his presentation. He made a website that did actor and actress recommendations, I believe for like extras to be hired. They kept getting alerts around 7-715am and then around 12.30pm to 1245pm.

Eventually they figured out that casting agents typically woke up, checked email, and submitted the requests on the website. The actors and actresses typically had other jobs and had to wait till lunch to check and apply.

They had to redesign the system and buy more bandwidth to handle these spikes.

He's a great presenter and I highly recommend watching all of them, even if you're not a programmer. And I probably got most of the details wrong... But it was a talk at one of NDC conventions.