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Re:A Guide to Fast Page Loads by some1else on Wednesday October 07, 2015 @11:11AM (#10346479)
For anyone that's interested, here's a guide on scaling Ruby servers to 1000RPM, written by the same author: http://www.nateberkopec.com/2015/07/29/scaling-ruby-apps-to-....
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Re:A Guide to Fast Page Loads by praseodym on Wednesday October 07, 2015 @11:30AM (#10346579)
Is it me or is 1000 requests per minute a laughable goal? That's 16.6 requests per second, i.e. 60ms per request _without any parallisation_. I'd expect any unoptimised app to be able to reach that goal.
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Re:A Guide to Fast Page Loads by aevv on Wednesday October 07, 2015 @12:21PM (#10346907)
Maybe if you read the first paragraph you'd find out
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Re:A Guide to Fast Page Loads by MichaelGG on Wednesday October 07, 2015 @05:27PM (#10349232)
Article is actually quite good, but it seems Rails is really slow. Twitter 2007 is said to be at 300ms/req. Others come in around 100ms. So it would seem that you don't get 16RPS without some effort.
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