Lessons From Scaling Live Events at Patreon

At Patreon, we recently scaled our platform to handle tens of thousands of fans joining live events at once. By modeling real user arrivals, tuning performance, and aligning across teams, we cut web load times by 57% and halved iOS startup requests.

Here’s how we did it and what we learned about scaling real-time systems under bursty load: https://www.patreon.com/posts/from-thundering-141679975

What are some surprising lessons you’ve learned from scaling a platform you've worked on?