Right now, Alhena AI is processing one shopper query every 3 seconds.
By Cyber Monday, that will jump to one query every other second.
That is a more than 20X surge in architectural load since last year. On days like Cyber Monday or Black Friday, our systems have to scale proportionately with the 2x-3x spike.
Most SaaS platforms buckle under that kind of sudden compression. Ours won’t 🤞 .
Not because of the code, but because of the hands that built it.
We talk a lot about “scaling systems” in this industry. We obsess over latency, throughput, and GPU availability. But we rarely talk about the only variable that actually matters in companies: The Human Capital.
The greatest privilege of being a founder isn’t the title or the equity. It is the “Draft Pick.”
It is the ability to hand-select the people who will stand in the trenches with you when the servers define “high volume” as a threat rather than a metric.
Our team is the reason we can handle a 20X surge without flinching.
This weekend, while the architecture is being stress-tested, I’m grateful for the hands that built it at Alhena.ai.
#BFCM