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by mbaird 2650 days ago
Straining to calculate trends at 180k an hour

[0] https://twitter.com/pixeltrix/status/1108673644660699136

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It isn't very impressive scaling given what are relatively low numbers in the internet age. We aren't really talking much more than 100 requests/posts a second. I have old Rails sites that put through more than that on a 10-year-old CPU.

I am wondering what the issue is, both in why it is failing on relatively low traffic numbers and also why it is they are struggling to fix it for over 3 hours at this point.