High Concurrency Table Hijinks 2023

Do you have a high concurrency table? Something being used as a queue for your application or to track processing of data? This is a surprisingly common case in many large applications! Come learn how we diagnosed (and solved) performance problems with a high concurrency table on software that serves 170,000+ customers! You'll learn what we did, how tracing and logging helped, and how we held a blameless post-mortem after the initial incident. While every challenge with high concurrency is different, the strategies for tackling it are similar.