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The CDN answers most requests at the edge, so only a trickle reaches the origin. Drop the hit rate and watch the origin melt.

What to watch

The origin only ever sees what the cache misses. It handles 120 a second, and the cache is currently hiding 90 percent of the traffic from it. Drag the hit rate down and the origin gets a load nobody ever sized it for.

What it is made of

Under load

Measured by running this design through the simulator at multiples of its own offered rate of 400 requests a second. Twenty seconds of simulated time, one fixed seed, so the same numbers come out every time.
This design holds 1200 requests a second with 0% errors. At 1600 it is losing 2% of them.

Open this example

Load CDN and origin from the Examples menu and drag the traffic slider yourself.