Executive Summary
Political Comms infrastructure is built to handle massive messaging volumes at the most critical moments. Our platform has processed over 52 million messages in a single day, with peak throughput exceeding 85,000 messages per minute during high-volume GOTV operations.
- Peak throughput: 5.1 million messages in a single hour
- Sustained high-volume: 13 hours (8am-9pm) at 4M+ messages/hour
- Platform uptime: 100.00% during critical campaign periods
- Capacity headroom: Only 34% of available capacity utilized at peak
For campaigns, this translates to one critical assurance: when you need to reach voters, your messages will get through—no throttling, no queuing, no excuses.
Peak Performance Under Pressure
High-stakes moments represent the ultimate stress test for political messaging infrastructure. With compressed GOTV windows—often just hours to mobilize voters—there is zero tolerance for delays or failures. Every minute of downtime or throttled capacity represents thousands of voters who may not receive critical information.
Our platform was built for exactly this scenario. During peak operations, we deliver over 5 million messages per hour while maintaining a 98.2% delivery success rate and sub-5-second P95 latency.
Peak Hour Performance
Messages per minute during peak operations
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Peak Hour Volume | 5.1M messages |
| Peak Minute Rate | 85K msg/min |
| Delivery Success Rate | 98.2% |
| P95 Latency | 4.2 seconds |
The chart above shows message throughput across a peak hour. Notice how the platform maintains consistent performance even as volume spikes—no degradation, no backpressure, just steady delivery.
Sustained Throughput Under Load
Peak performance is impressive, but campaigns need sustained performance. GOTV operations aren't a 5-minute sprint—they're an all-day marathon of continuous high-volume outreach. A platform that can spike to high throughput but can't maintain it is worse than useless; it creates false confidence that collapses at the worst possible moment.
Our infrastructure maintains sustained high throughput throughout the entire campaign day, scaling seamlessly with demand.
Sustained Performance
Consistent throughput over 13+ hour GOTV window
Minimal variance throughout the entire peak period ensures reliable delivery
Over a 13-hour window from 8am to 9pm, our platform delivers consistently—ramping up through the morning, peaking at over 5 million messages per hour during the critical mid-day window, and sustaining high throughput through the evening. This natural curve reflects real campaign patterns: volunteer activity peaks mid-day, GOTV pushes intensify, and our infrastructure scales to match.
The chart shows sustained delivery throughout the entire day. No sudden drops, no capacity exhaustion, just reliable throughput hour after hour—totaling 52+ million messages delivered in a single day.
Elastic Infrastructure & Autoscaling
Traditional messaging platforms force you to choose between paying for peak capacity you rarely use or risking capacity shortfalls when you need it most. Our infrastructure eliminates this tradeoff through intelligent elastic scaling.
Elastic Autoscaling
Infrastructure scales automatically—up or down—to match demand
No predefined capacity limits. Infrastructure provisions exactly what's needed, when it's needed—scaling up within seconds and scaling down to optimize costs.
When demand increases, our containerized processing provisions additional capacity within 45 seconds. The system can scale up to 50x baseline capacity without manual intervention—no tickets to file, no engineers to page, no nervous waiting. When demand subsides, capacity scales down gracefully over 5 minutes, optimizing costs while maintaining a buffer for sudden spikes.
How Elastic Scaling Works
Our infrastructure operates on a principle of adaptive capacity:
- Adaptive database infrastructure scales seamlessly with demand, automatically provisioning read capacity during high-query periods
- Intelligent caching layers accelerate delivery without manual tuning, reducing database load during peak times
- Multi-tier message prioritization ensures time-sensitive operations always take precedence
- Asynchronous processing for non-critical operations that never blocks delivery
The visualization above shows how our infrastructure responds to demand throughout the day—scaling up within seconds when load increases, and scaling down gracefully when it subsides. There's no manual intervention required; the system maintains your safety margin automatically.
Reliability & Zero Incident Operations
Reliability isn't just about uptime percentages—it's about what happens when things go wrong. During critical campaign periods, nothing goes wrong. Zero incidents. Zero degradations. Zero excuses.
Reliability Record
45-Day Peak Operations Period
Our zero-downtime deployment architecture enables continuous improvement without service interruption. During high-stakes periods, we ship performance optimizations and feature updates—all without a single moment of downtime.
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Monitoring Period | 45 days |
| Total Uptime | 100.00% |
| Incidents | 0 |
| Degradations | 0 |
| Deployments (zero-downtime) | 15 |
The calendar visualization above shows daily status across a 45-day peak operations period. Every green square represents a day of perfect operational status—no partial outages, no degraded performance, no "we're investigating" status pages.
Built-in reliability guarantees prevent duplicate sends under any conditions. Even in edge cases—network partitions, retry storms, race conditions—our idempotency patterns ensure voters never receive the same message twice.
Capacity Headroom & Future Scale
Perhaps the most reassuring metric: we never come close to our limits.
Capacity Headroom
We never approach our scaling limits
This gauge shows utilization at peak demand. The "66% room to scale" isn't a fixed buffer—our elastic infrastructure can provision additional capacity within seconds, automatically, whenever needed.
At our highest sustained load, we operated comfortably below scaling limits
At absolute peak—the highest sustained load during critical periods—we utilized only 34% of our scaling capacity. That means we had significant headroom beyond what was required to handle the most demanding moments.
But here's the key: that 66% "room to scale" isn't a fixed buffer. Our elastic infrastructure automatically provisions additional capacity as demand increases—there's no hard ceiling. We operated comfortably within our scaling limits, with the ability to scale further within seconds if needed.
What This Means For Your Campaign
Technical metrics matter, but what campaigns really need to know is: will this work when it matters most?
Based on our performance data:
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Your GOTV messages will go out. No throttling, no "we're working on it," no hoping the queue clears in time. Our sustained throughput guarantees mean your entire voter file can be reached within your GOTV window.
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Your peak moments won't break us. Whether it's debate night, an endorsement drop, or a volunteer mobilization blast, our elastic infrastructure scales to meet demand in under a minute.
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Your messages won't get lost. 100% uptime and built-in reliability guarantees mean every message that enters our system gets delivered or explicitly fails with a clear reason—no silent failures, no mystery undelivered messages.
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You'll never outgrow us. With significant headroom at peak and elastic scaling that adapts to demand, even the largest campaigns have room to grow without infrastructure concerns.
Ready to Experience Infrastructure You Can Trust?
Political Comms provides enterprise-grade messaging infrastructure at transparent, competitive pricing. No hidden fees, no surprise overage charges, no capacity limits that mysteriously appear when you need them most.
View our pricing to see exactly what you'll pay, or contact our team to discuss your campaign's specific needs. We're happy to walk through our infrastructure in detail—because when you understand what's behind the curtain, you'll understand why campaigns trust us with their most critical communications.