I didn't realize you were getting that many requests per second. That's quite remarkable when you only have 18 app cores available. In my experience, you're luc

I didn't realize you were getting that many requests per second. That's quite remarkable when you only have 18 app cores available. In my experience, you're lucky if you can get Django to service a request in 10ms. So I'd expect closer to 40 cores to handle that level of traffic. I suppose since it is spiky, and not a particularly latency sensitive application, you can get by with fewer cores.