In particular we weren't storing a ton per session, but were having to spin up more and more instances or suffer port exhaustion.
We go from about 25,000 request a second during the day to 200 at night, and there was no good way we could find to autoscale it.
We scripted the build up process based on time and sometimes it wasn't meeting demand.
It was taking a lot of devops time. I'd had an experimental fork of our application using JWT floating around for a while and my manager made it a priority. It's never needed any maintaince and had been a real improvement for us.
We go from about 25,000 request a second during the day to 200 at night, and there was no good way we could find to autoscale it.
We scripted the build up process based on time and sometimes it wasn't meeting demand.
It was taking a lot of devops time. I'd had an experimental fork of our application using JWT floating around for a while and my manager made it a priority. It's never needed any maintaince and had been a real improvement for us.