SE Radio 700: Mojtaba Sarooghi on Waiting Rooms for High-Traffic Events

Mojtaba Sarooghi , a Distinguished Product Architect at Queue-it, speaks with host Jeremy Jung about virtual waiting rooms for high-traffic events such as concerts and limited-quantity product releases. They explore using a virtual queue to prevent overloading systems, how most traffic is from bots, using edge workers to reduce requests to the customer's origin servers, and strategies for detecting bots in cooperation with vendors. Mojtaba discusses using AWS services like Elastic Load Balancing, DynamoDB, and Simple Notification Service, and explains why DynamoDB's eventual consistency is a good fit for their domain. To explain the approach, he walks us through how his team resolved an incident in which a traffic spike overloaded their services. Brought to you by IEEE Computer Society and IEEE Software magazine .

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SE Radio 700: Mojtaba Sarooghi on Waiting Rooms for High-Traffic Events is an episode from Software Engineering Radio - The Podcast for Professional Software Developers by SE-Radio Team.

This episode is 01:07:46 long.

This episode was published on Dec 23, 2025.

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