When Taylor Swift fans crashed Ticketmaster, it wasn’t even the full sale — it was the pre-sale. Millions of real fans showed up with access codes, but the system couldn’t handle it. Ticketmaster’s decades-old architecture, stitched together from multiple systems, just fell apart under the pressure. It’s a reminder that if your authentication flow, traffic management, or scaling plan can’t handle a viral moment, your fans will feel it first. That’s why we built Fanfare — to make launches bulletp