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Re:A lot of complex “scalable” systems can be done with a si... by yawn on Sunday December 29, 2019 @09:03PM (#21910162)
A slim subset of humans typing things is not what I would label "write heavy". Write heavy is more like 100k+ devices out in the field sending their current position every 10s. That's still very manageable, but requires some thoughtful design.
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Re:A lot of complex “scalable” systems can be done with a si... by Retric on Sunday December 29, 2019 @10:27PM (#21910582)
10k simple updates per second is hardly high bandwidth. I knew people handling similar workloads on a 1U server 10 years ago.
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Re:A lot of complex “scalable” systems can be done with a si... by pushpop on Monday December 30, 2019 @04:38AM (#21912148)
Indeed and I literally was. And the back end was written in mod_perl (which isn’t exactly known for performance). Even back then 10k/s was our smallest service - both on income as well as traffic - so there wasn’t the incentive to rewrite it in a faster language.
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Re:A lot of complex “scalable” systems can be done with a si... by stefan_ on Sunday December 29, 2019 @11:46PM (#21910884)
The Raspberry Pi 3 in my cupboard without a heat sink on can do 80000 Redis write ops/sec.
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