SCALE FOR PEAKS

Your systems shouldn't fear Black Friday. Or any other day.

Peak trading, major promotions, Black Friday. These are the moments when technology failure costs the most. Spike provides the performance engineering and non-functional testing discipline to prove systems can handle real volume, under real conditions, before it matters.
YOUR SITUATION

Peak trading pressure

Black Friday is weeks away. The performance test results are inconclusive. Leadership wants certainty, and the team is running out of time to find and fix the real bottlenecks.
WHAT SPIKE DOES

Performance engineering and testing

Realistic load models built from actual trading data. Tests that mirror Black Friday volumetrics, identify bottlenecks before customers do, and give leadership clear go/no-go evidence.
YOUR SITUATION

Unknown risk at volume

Nobody is quite sure what happens when 3x normal traffic hits. The architecture looks right on paper, but it's never been genuinely stress-tested at realistic scale.
WHAT SPIKE DOES

Operational readiness and resilience

Beyond performance testing: monitoring, failure mode analysis, recovery testing, and the assurance that teams know what to do when the unexpected happens at 8pm on a Friday.
WHERE WE TYPICALLY ENGAGE
Performance and load testing
Peak preparation and readiness
Failure mode and resilience testing
Observability and monitoring
Cloud performance assurance
Page speed and core web vitals

25m

peak orders handled by an Azure MACH platform validated by Spike under realistic load.

+29%

year-on-year improvement in online conversion during peak trading for Currys Salesforce platform.

3m

monthly site visits validated under peak load for NOTHS ahead of their peak trading period.
CLIENT SUCCESS STORIES
Spike-NOTHS Case Study

Readying NOTHS for 3 million visits at peak

Not On The High Street went into peak trading knowing their platform wouldn't let them down.

 

Spike-Currys Case Study

Helping Currys win at peak trading

How a Salesforce Commerce Cloud platform and a steady, scalable testing partnership delivered a 29% uplift in online conversion.
 
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