The Veltrix Treasure-Hunt Engine Litmus Test

Veltrix hit AWS control-plane throttling when frequent Redis shard-discovery polling caused latency spikes and 429 errors during Black Friday traffic.

To fix it, the team replaced the DescribeCacheNodes polling loop with ElastiCache topology events delivered through EventBridge Pipes.

The event-driven design removed discovery polling load, reduced orchestrator overhead, and stabilized Redis discovery at higher traffic levels.

The change eliminated a key scaling bottleneck in the control plane and improved reliability for the multi-tenant game orchestrator.