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A slim subset of humans typing things is not what I would label "write heavy". Write heavy is more like 100k+ devices out in the field sending their current po
by yawn 7y ago
A slim subset of humans typing things is not what I would label "write heavy". Write heavy is more like 100k+ devices out in the field sending their current position every 10s. That's still very manageable, but requires some thoughtful design.
- Retric 7y ago10k simple updates per second is hardly high bandwidth. I knew people handling similar workloads on a 1U server 10 years ago.
- pushpop 7y agoIndeed and I literally was. And the back end was written in mod_perl (which isn’t exactly known for performance). Even back then 10k/s was our smallest service - both on income as well as traffic - so there wasn’t the incentive to rewrite it in a faster language.
- stefan_ 7y agoThe Raspberry Pi 3 in my cupboard without a heat sink on can do 80000 Redis write ops/sec.