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2 questions in Device Provisioning.
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Device Provisioning intermediate
A consumer device sells 600,000 units in the fourth quarter and most of them are gifts. Roughly how many first-boot provisioning requests per second should the platform be sized for on the morning of 25 December, and what does the number rule out?
3 min answer provisioningcapacitycertificatesactivation -
Device Provisioning intermediate
Devices are provisioned on a contract manufacturer's line: each unit boots, calls your cloud provisioning service, receives a unique certificate, and is boxed. At 02:00 on a Saturday your provisioning service becomes unreachable from that factory. The line runs three shifts and cannot stop. What happens next, and what should the design have been?
3 min answer provisioningmanufacturingavailabilitycertificates