March 22, 2026By Digital Ullu

Running 200 TPS on Lambda for an hour and learning humility

We load-tested our middleware at 200 transactions per second for a full hour. Lambda held. But the SQS queue depth graph looked like a heartbeat monitor, and I spent three hours convinced we had a bug. It was just auto-scaling warming up. Observability without context is noise.

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