Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by shanemhansen 4126 days ago
I can't find the reference but my rule of thumb is actually to build for 10x and design for 100x. That is to say if my service is now processing 1k requests/s I'd like the capacity for 10k requests/s and I'd like the existing architecture to be scalable by adding more nodes up to 100k requests/s.