Smooth scaling: System design for high traffic

About Smooth scaling: System design for high traffic

Smooth Scaling: System Design for High Traffic focuses on all things scalability, reliability, and performance. Tune in for expert advice on how to scale systems, control costs, boost availability, optimize performance, and get the most out of your tech stack. Host Jose Quaresma is the VP Customer Experience & Solutions at Queue-it, working on the frontlines with some of the world’s biggest businesses on their busiest days, from Ticketmaster to Zalando to Home Office U.K. He’ll be joined by experts across industries, uncovering how major organizations design, build, and deploy systems that remain reliable at scale.

Publisher

Queue-it

Category

business · technology

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

22 Apr 2025

Latest episode

13 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

21 of 29 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   13 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Bot Traffic as a Capacity and Cost Problem with Netacea CTO Andy Still

   CTO and Co-Founder of Netacea Andy Still explains to host Jose Quaresma how bot traffic impacts capacity and costs, offering insights into AI-driven detection strategies.

2. 

   1 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

   How to Trust an AI Agent with AWS's Alexander Günsche and Queue-it's Moji Sarooghi

   AWS's Alexander Günsche and Queue-it's Moji Sarooghi discuss how to build trust in AI agents, moving beyond traditional bot detection to enable new interactions.

3. 

   7 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Rebuilding Observability for the Agentic AI Era with Suman Karumuri

   Host José Quaresma interviews Suman Karumuri, founder of KalDB, about rebuilding observability systems for the unpredictable demands of agentic AI.

Inside a recent episode

Bot Traffic as a Capacity and Cost Problem with Netacea CTO Andy Still

Published 13 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] I would like to start maybe from a cost perspective. Can you share with us where do you see bot traffic actually costing business? Where does it show up in their bill? You get some kind of very direct costs. Obviously, the more throughput that you've got on a website, the more infrastructure costs you have. And there's quite a direct correlation between those two. And obviously, when we were first engaging with in the early days, that was very much in that area where they were just seeing a lot of traffic. They didn't know what it was and they didn't know whether or not they wanted it and they were paying for it. […]

Who has been a guest on Smooth scaling: System design for high traffic

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Andy Still
• Alexander Günsche
• Moji Sarooghi
• Suman Karumuri
• Klaus Koefoed

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

2 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

36 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 35 / 100

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Quality

70

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

0

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