alt Hacker NewsI have 100% failed interviews by giving that answer when their definition of scale was 10,000!!!! req/sec. Like sorry dude in 2026 that's not much different than 10 req/sec and my original design would work just fine... But that's what happens when your interviewer is a "senior" 24 year old just reading off the prompt.
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silveraxe93 • yesterday at 2:23 PM
10,000!!!! is such a huge number I don't think we could even represent with a computer.
Being obviously pedantic here, I agree with what you meant.
IshKebab • yesterday at 2:55 PM
Well, it depends what those requests are doing surely? I always thought it was weird to treat "request" as a unit of measurement. Are you requesting a static help page, or a GraphQL search query?
> 10,000!!!! req/sec
I've forgotten how to count that low.
I'm gonna need a Kubernetes cluster with a distributed database with a caching layer, RabbitMQ/Kafka/whatever, and...