Images clog the app servers

Incident drill · Intermediate

What is happening

Alert: p95 above target; app servers busy serving image bytes.

Product photos are fetched from object storage by the app on every request, from every phone.

Serve images close to users so the app servers only do app work.

You have 4 changes and 7 minutes. A change is adding or removing a part or a connection, or changing a part’s settings. Fewer changes and less time score higher.