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Re:Goodbye Google Cloud, Hello Digital Ocean by throwawayReply on Tuesday November 28, 2017 @06:18AM (#15796170)
What do you do that serves 1.2mm requests / second?

I don't disbelieve you, I'm just wondering what type of site that is since English Wikipedia is several orders of magnitude lower than that.

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Re:Goodbye Google Cloud, Hello Digital Ocean by FBISurveillance on Tuesday November 28, 2017 @06:22AM (#15796182)
Ads, one of the most shitshow industries in the world.
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Re:Goodbye Google Cloud, Hello Digital Ocean by FBISurveillance on Tuesday November 28, 2017 @06:23AM (#15796188)
Forgot to add a joke: you can judge from my nickname! :-)
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Re:Goodbye Google Cloud, Hello Digital Ocean by piva00 on Tuesday November 28, 2017 @07:06AM (#15796454)
Can add to that, I worked for a few months in a small mobile ad network and the throughput of that was insane for the size of the company. Also a shitshow of a company on many levels.
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Re:Goodbye Google Cloud, Hello Digital Ocean by dhimes on Tuesday November 28, 2017 @09:34AM (#15797574)
So Google built a platform that is excellent for running ad networks. It seems so obvious now.
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Re:Goodbye Google Cloud, Hello Digital Ocean by user5994461 on Tuesday November 28, 2017 @08:44PM (#15803752)
Ads are a super intensive workload with super low margin. It'd be more correct to say that google built a very efficient platform that can run anything. Well, anything easier than ad, so almost anything.
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Re:Goodbye Google Cloud, Hello Digital Ocean by ericnyamu on Tuesday November 28, 2017 @07:58AM (#15796792)
1.2m request per sec of ads looks like adblock isnt working .
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Re:Goodbye Google Cloud, Hello Digital Ocean by jjeaff on Tuesday November 28, 2017 @08:35PM (#15803709)
Good news to me. Let everyone else keep finding all the free services. Everyone can't use adblock or nothing is free anymore.
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