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by tomtomtom777 2408 days ago
> They delivered value to the business. That's the only thing that matters.

Although hardware is relatively cheap, 170 QPS on 40 servers for this type of query is astonishingly horrible even from a Business/Product Engineering standpoint.

Boasting this as "highest QPS* engineering achievement is just awkward. It may be better suited for an article on how throwing hardware at problems is cheaper than hiring engineers.

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The article mentions 170k QPS, not 170.