Peak events like Black Friday sales, record-breaking concerts, and unpredictable freak events like adverse weather and cloud outages, are pushing legacy database technology’s scalability and resilience limits.
With even more frequent and extreme peak events and freak events likely in the years to come, discover how distributed SQL can help!
Black Friday 2023 witnessed significant growth in online sales, with Cyber Monday setting new records, highlighting the continued relevance of these peak shopping days. Despite the surge in online shopping, overall holiday spending is only expected to increase slightly, suggesting a shift towards more online purchases.
This blog highlights six moments that will increase the risk of an ecommerce website crash. Using examples, it illustrates the short- and long-term financial and reputational impact of such crashes, showing how by modernizing the data layer retailers can ensure site resilience, scalability, and consistent high performance and safeguard their share of the growing eCommerce market.
