Case studies · Comic Relief

National fundraising platform under live broadcast load · United Kingdom

A donation platform that holds under a live broadcast

A United Kingdom charity running national fundraising events, including Red Nose Day.

Client: Comic Relief
Location: United Kingdom
Sector: Public interest

Illustration of a dark production office during a live broadcast: an engineer in a headset with two laptops, a phone bank of volunteers behind.

Illustration generated for Padmanex. Not a photograph of Comic Relief.

500: donations per second at peak
1M+: daily transactions with zero downtime
Result: Production changes in under 15 minutes
Result: Full worldwide deployment in 90 minutes

The situation

Donation traffic during live events risked outages.
Manual deployments slowed urgent changes.
Running across regions was complex to manage.

What we delivered

An event-driven platform built for traffic spikes.
Automated deployment for faster production updates.
Multi-region support for a global event.

What this means for an Indian department

A scheme application window, an examination result date and a subsidy disbursal all produce the same shape of load: a national spike on a published date, with no option to fail.

Related solutions: Examination & recruitment, e-Governance platforms

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