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by jeffbee 1040 days ago
The amount of mail alone is bonkers. If we assume that half of this traffic went to the big operators, Google and Microsoft, each of them would have observed a noticeable traffic bump, 10s of 1000s of requests per second on average all day. It is fun to think about how these systems are interconnected and how they affect each other.