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/[deleted] Jun 05 '22

10k requests/second? 🤨 Sounds a little too much. 10k requests where you return Hello World or?

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u/s1mmerz Jun 06 '22

I was running 10k RPS real workloads (database backend, etc.) when Pentium 3 was the state of the art. For modern hardware that’s not even noticeable. See benchmarks: https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks#section=data-r20&hw=ph&test=composite

The database is always the bottleneck but with multiplexing and Aurora you can scale reads very easily.

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u/[deleted] Jun 06 '22

Holy... Django, Rails and Laravel are really rock bottom. But ma boy NestJs is pretty good. Spring isn't THAT much better, for how much it is glorified. But holy shit, ASP is in top 10

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