alt Hacker News> It...handles 50,000 transactions per second with sub-100ms latency on hardware that costs a fraction of an equivalent cloud footprint. It has been doing this for 60 years.
Eat that, Bitcoin.
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andersmurphy • today at 5:04 PM
I mean you can easily do 100K TPS on a M1 with sqlite and a dynamic language. With sub 100ms latency.
People don't do it because it's not fashionable (the cool kids are all on AWS with hundreds of containers, hosting thousands micro services, because that's web scale).
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buckle8017 • today at 3:30 PM
Ah yes a completely centralized system that scales, who would have thought.
(For the pedantic, it's not exactly centralized nor federated since each airline treats their view of the world as absolutely correct)
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50,000 transactions a second is a bunch for humans.
It’s nothing for even an ancient CPU - let alone our modern marvels that make a Cray 1 cry.
The key is an extremely well-thought and tested design.