tldr: vibe overengineered and badly configured platform crashes under minimal load.

500 concurrent users is not "production traffic".

Nothing to learn here, apart from: this could've been one server engine, one database, and vanillajs. Let's repeat our usual mantra before building anything: you're not building current(!) Facebook/Netflix from scratch, stop having 10+ product dependencies, 20 services and 6 different languages in your toy project.

An AI slop article about the limitations of vibe coding. How ironic.