[hueving]

Here's a cool trick I figured out. If you have something measured in units per minute, you can divide it by 60 to get units per second. I won't even charge you to use the method even though I'm in the process of patenting it.

[user5994461]

Actually. The conversion doesn't work.

The requests per minute number is an average.

The requests per second number should be given for peak load. That is a very important metric, a system has to be scaled to sustain the peaks, not the average.

We'd need to know the traffic pattern to know the multiplier, that is certainly not 60 :p

[hueving]

Units per minute gives you a lower bound on units per second. You can't reach an average of X/min without achieving at least (X/60)/sec.

[corobo]

You can also do it the opposite way if you want less specific numbers. Multiply by 60 and round off for the units per hour!