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Absolutely not. This is an average, I bet their peak could be in the mid hundreds of thousands That's my point. Per-second numbers are far more useful than pe

• mbesto 4y ago
  > useful than per-day numbers Useful for what exactly? You're basically accusing the company of inflating their numbers (??) as if they are deliberating lying about their scale.
  • cperciva 4y ago
    As zorkian noted, "messages per day" is a marketing number. In a technical blog post, what matters is the numbers which are relevant for technical purposes, such as peak (or high-percentile) messages per second.
    • asymptotic 4y ago
      In a technical blog or dashboard I like to see 1) avg mean (for throughput estimates), 2) p50 (typical customer / typical load), 3) p90 / p99 / p99.99 (whatever you think your tail is) 4) p100 (max, always useful to see and know, maybe p0). Or throw in a histogram or kernel density estimate, sometimes there are really interesting patterns. I’ve never seen a technical blog give such traffic or latency details though. Edit: reading other comments, please do not read this as diminishing this blog post or Discord, great clear writing and impressive solution to an interesting problem.
    • mbesto 4y ago
      > blog post It's a blog...it IS marketing.