[duxup]

>a staged DOS in the testing phase against your infrastructure isn't how performance testing works.

That's exactly what I'm saying... that's not a good test for performance.

It's a good test to see how your DOS mitigation plans work, but it's not a good test for production traffic performance.

[dsfyu404ed]

It doesn't matter if it's a "good" test in the general case. It's a standard test and would have caught this.

[duxup]

> It's a standard test and would have caught this.

There's nothing to indicate that. You could have the service behind any given DOS mitigation system and it would never even touch the back end...