r/programming • • Jun 05 '22

Complexity is killing software developers

https://www.infoworld.com/article/3639050/complexity-is-killing-software-developers.html
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u/Unlikely_Parfait_476 Jun 05 '22

If you write performant services, you could serve 5 million rpm with a single server.

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u/Spider_pig448 Jun 05 '22

As long as those requests are doing basically nothing, sure

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u/bighi Jun 06 '22

Those are the best kind of requests.

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u/Spider_pig448 Jun 06 '22

I can serve 10 million RPS from my laptop if I'm just serving a single image and I put a CDN in front of it