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We had a site that was expecting 100k+ unique visitors, but only for a single day. The motto of the site is "the day of internet shopping", basically, it is centered around having larger stores of all kinds, signing up, and making discounts, that are only valid for that single day only. I want to show some steps that we took to make sure that the website does not crash under the load.

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