Reining in the thundering herd ⛈ Getting to 80% CPU utilization with Django Going from 10K to 1M requests per minuteIn early 2021, Clubhouse started going through a period of explosive growth. Over the course of two months we went from less than 10K to over 1M backend requests per minute, and we had to quickly adapt to serve billions of requests a day on our existing stack. And we only had two ful