Sep 1, 202653 min
When an AI agent shows up at your checkout, most systems still see a bot and block it. Alexander Guensche is a Senior Solutions Architect at AWS and the lead of TSAI, the Trust Signals for Agentic Interactions protocol...
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Smooth Scaling: System Design for High Traffic
Hosted by Queue-it · technology · EN
About this Podcast:
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.
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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.
Who hosts Smooth Scaling: System Design for High Traffic?
Smooth Scaling: System Design for High Traffic is hosted by Queue-it. The show has published 25 episodes to date.
What has Smooth Scaling: System Design for High Traffic covered recently?
Recent episodes include "How to Trust an AI Agent with AWS's Alexander Günsche and Queue-it's Moji Sarooghi" (1 September 2026, 53 minutes), "Rebuilding Observability for the Agentic AI Era with Suman Karumuri" (7 July 2026, 44 minutes), and "Sovereign Cloud and Sovereign AI in Europe with Klaus Koefoed, CEO of T-Systems" (9 June 2026, 43 minutes).
How often does Smooth Scaling: System Design for High Traffic publish?
Smooth Scaling: System Design for High Traffic publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 40 minutes across 25 episodes.
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Queue-it hosts Smooth Scaling: System Design for High Traffic, a technology podcast with 25 episodes published.
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Recent episodes
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Jul 7, 202644 minSuman Karumuri has spent 17+ years building observability systems at Amazon, Twitter, Pinterest, Slack, and Airbnb. He was tech lead for Zipkin at Twitter, co-authored the OpenTracing specification that fed into...
Jun 9, 202643 minS0<p>Klaus Koefoed spent more than 25 years in IT services and consultancy, at Capgemini, Deloitte, and Accenture, before taking over as CEO of T-Systems in Northern Europe. In this episode of the Smooth Scaling Podcast...
May 19, 202650 minS0<p>Sam Dhar has spent 14 years building infrastructure at Cisco, Amazon Alexa, and Adobe, and now works as Senior Staff Engineer and AI infrastructure leader at Galileo, the enterprise AI evaluation platform. In this...
Apr 28, 202650 minS0<p>Chris Nesbitt-Smith has been running Kubernetes in production since version 0.4 — long before pods, before managed services, before most of today's tooling existed. In this episode of Smooth Scaling, he sits down...
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Episode #23
Autoscaling in Production: When It Works and When It Doesn't with Zaigham Sarfaraz and Šimon Bučko
Apr 9, 202636 minS0<p>In this episode, José Quaresma sits down with two Queue-it engineers — Zaigham Sarfaraz, Engineering Manager, and Šimon Bučko, Senior Software Engineer — to talk autoscaling in production. They cover the fundamentals...
Mar 17, 202633 minS0<p>In this episode, José Quaresma speaks with Iris Dyrmishi, Senior Observability Engineer at Miro, about building an observability platform that hundreds of engineers actually trust and use. Iris explains how her team...
Feb 24, 202631 minS0<p>In this episode of Smooth Scaling, José Quaresma speaks with Hans Skovgaard, Chief Technology and Product Officer at Queue-it, about a shift that is already underway and accelerating fast: the internet now carries...
Feb 3, 202632 minS0<p>In this episode of Smooth Scaling, José Quaresma sits down with Art Huggard, former VP of E-Commerce at Build-A-Bear, who transformed the company's online presence from a crashing website to a $70 million business...
Jan 13, 202646 minS0<p>In this episode of Smooth Scaling, José Quaresma talks with Ryan Sherlock, Director of Engineering at Intercom, about the realities of scaling databases in a fast-growing SaaS product. Ryan shares Intercom’s journey...
Episode #18
Infrastructure as the Product: Designing Data-Heavy Systems with Product VP Maria Petrova
Dec 16, 202540 minS0<p>Infrastructure is often treated as a backend concern, but in practice it shapes how users experience a product. In this episode of Smooth Scaling, Product VP Maria Petrova explores what it means when infrastructure...
Dec 2, 202539 minS0<p>In this episode, Moji Sarooghi, Distinguished Product Architect at Queue-it, breaks down the design principles and distributed systems behind Queue-it’s virtual waiting room. He explains how the team handles massive...
Nov 18, 202547 minS0<p>In this episode, Angela Timofte, former VP of Global Engineering at Trustpilot, shares the decade-long journey of evolving Trustpilot’s architecture from a monolith to an event-driven, serverless-first platform. She...
Nov 4, 202525 minS0<p>In this episode, Gabor Sivók, Cloud Security Architect at Queue-it, shares a practical look at what it takes to secure large-scale systems in today’s cloud environments. He walks through Queue-it’s journey to ISO...
Episode #14
Mastering MACH Architecture & Orchestration with Sezin Cagil of Dr. Martens & the MACH Alliance
Oct 21, 202539 minS0<p>In this episode, Sezin Cagil, Head of Unified Commerce Technology at Dr. Martens and MACH Alliance ambassador, shares hard-won insights on implementing and scaling MACH architecture in real-world environments. She...
Episode #13
Hype Event Protection: How Akamai & Queue-it Stop Bots at Scale, with Ilia Bromberg & Martin Larsen
Oct 7, 202549 minS0<p>In this episode of the Smooth Scaling Podcast, Ilia Bromberg (Akamai) and Martin Larsen (Queue-it) explore the evolution of bots, the growing complexity of detecting them, and the real-world impact on hype events...
Sep 23, 202543 minS0<p>In this episode, Johannes Boumans, Engineering Manager in Zalando’s SRE team, shares how Lounge by Zalando handles daily surges of up to 200,000 requests per second. He discusses the shift from monoliths to...
Sep 9, 202532 minS0<p>In this episode of Smooth Scaling, Jillian Als, CMO at Queue-it, unpacks The Age of Online Trust report. She explores why reliability is the license to operate, how trust is earned in drops but lost in buckets, and...
Aug 26, 202538 minS0<p>In this episode of Smooth Scaling, Jose is joined by Praveen Thakur, Queue-it’s Head of Technical Engagement, APAC who shares what it takes to prepare for and succeed during high-traffic online events. From...
Aug 12, 202540 minS0<p>In this episode, Barnaby Clark, CEO of Line-Up, reveals the engineering practices behind resilient ticketing systems that handle real-world demand. Barnaby explains how Line-Up rebuilt their platform from the ground...
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Jillian Als
Chief Marketing Officer, Leadfeeder
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Kolton Andrus
Founder and CEO, Gremlin
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Alexander Guensche
AWS
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Moji Sarooghi
Queue-it
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