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These specific customers were not reasonable though. They wanted to specifically know when and how the software breaks, because they had been burned by previous vendors. Eventually sales reacted with a rather frustrated "then pay us 10 engineering days so we can setup a dedicated system for this so you can run your tests" and instead of cancelling the deal, they were like "Ok. Here you go, let's go"

And naturally, they were able to break it eventually, but they could have had all global employees trigger request 10 times per second and the system would've held and it recovered as soon as the load was gone. It was a silly deal, but now it's a great business partner.