Eliminated a recurring peak-load outage
Profiled a production .NET authentication service to the root cause of a recurring peak-load outage, tuned it under load, and shipped the fix — restoring stable sub-second responses.
How it worked
The service buckled at peak load. I reproduced it under representative traffic, profiled down to the root cause, tuned the configuration, and validated the fix before promoting it to production. One of those problems where the change is small but finding it is the whole job — and the payoff is users never noticing the thing that used to break.
