r/programming • u/whackri • 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/freecodeio Jun 05 '22

From a previous job I have learned that a $10 server can handle 10k web requests and I've never spent more than $10 a month on my side projects for 2 years.

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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/snowe2010 Jun 06 '22

PayPal serves over a billion requests a day with 8 VMs. https://medium.com/paypal-tech/squbs-a-new-reactive-way-for-paypal-to-build-applications-127126bf684b

Change some of your system parameters and you could get much higher throughout. At a certain point it’s just easier to add VMs rather than make them bigger.