alt Hacker NewsThe important metrics is peak requests per second. 14M / day sounds impressive, but it’s only a sustained 160 per second which literally any language and framework can handle on the lowest end hardware.
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kryptiskt • today at 12:51 PM
Only if users are nice and spread the load evenly over the day, but they are never so considerate.
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Sure, peaks are much higher. But a good part of it is reverse proxying with in-memory caching and locking, which I've implemented in several stacks over the years, and many struggle with it (I have been paid to do comprehensive benchmarks on the topic). On the BEAM it's a non-event.