OK, another new example from my home country. The health ministry is splitting the EU donations among applicants, on first come first served basis, by letting them submit applications at 14:00 sharp. 400M EUR in play. As a result, they have teams of folks sitting at computers, waiting to hit the submit button at the same time. One of the applicants appealed against the system, coz they ended up at 68th position, allegedly submitting at 14:00:03…
I admit this is not necessarily a high concurrency problem though - there’s probably just a few hundred of incoming requests, not hundreds of thousands. Yet the system crashed, of course.
Translated article with a ridiculous video:
