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Re:Meta reveals serverless platform processing trillions of ... by kristiandupont on Monday October 23, 2023 @03:15AM (#37982463)
>then scaling to 1 trillion per day might be as easy as buying 10k servers [...]

..I doubt that. How would you distribute the requests between those? An instance of mod_proxy_balancer?

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Re:Meta reveals serverless platform processing trillions of ... by fxtentacle on Monday October 23, 2023 @03:17AM (#37982474)
DNS round robin so that clients get randomly distributed among multiple load balancers

They have 12m RPS so about 10 HAProxy servers should do the trick.

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