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> Users > 1,000,000+ [...] > Put caching in front of the DB Isn't that a little late?
by chinathrow 11y ago
> Users > 1,000,000+
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> Put caching in front of the DB
Isn't that a little late?
- bpicolo 11y agoNot really. SQL DBs can handle a crapload of traffic. Maybe not a million all at once by default, but generally with a million users you're looking at << 50k on site at any given time, and if you split reads off to replicas you can handle a lot of scale. In my experience, 50-100k qps (writes) is where SQL starts to get especially hard