Elixir Saves Pinterest $2M a Year in Server Costs

Re:Elixir Saves Pinterest $2M a Year in Server Costs by Incolotopo on Tuesday August 29, 2023 @07:33AM (#37306193)

Its still not very easy to understand if this is now good or not.

3-5k requests per second is not that much and highly depends on what you actually do.

A lot of things can be done just with nginx. nginx is very fast.

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Re:Elixir Saves Pinterest $2M a Year in Server Costs by Coryodaniel on Tuesday August 29, 2023 @07:47AM (#37306299)

I don’t recall the payload size, but these were all POSTs w/ decent sized bodies, it took about 60 Kinesis shards to avoid writethroughputexceeded.

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