[pjc50]

A billion users? Are you Facebook or the Olympics?

[no1youknowz]

Neither. But once you start doing something like serving ads. The paradigm shifts. Of course, what I do is a lot more intensive/complex. But I'll say this to get the basics across.

[krisdol]

It doesn't take facebook. I'm in a small adtech company. Tens of billions of requests a month is not unexpected.

[bradhe]

> Tens of billions of requests a month is not unexpected.

10000000000 / (60 * 60 * 24 * 30) = 3,858 req/sec. That's a pretty good clip.

[manigandham]

That's a small adtech company. The larger ones do that per day with some over 50B/daily.

[bradhe]

Yep. I spent some time working for one of the largest.

[dano]

We see 10,000 req/sec on a regular basis.

[bdcravens]

It's not always _users_, but requests. As companies embrace microservices, I think you'll see a moderately sized application pushing tons of requests over HTTP that would normally have used a different protocol