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It is hard to tell but it seems like he's talking about serving 1/3 of your daily traffic in a few minutes. When web servers fail, they tend to fall off a cliff

• lrobb 15y ago
  Yeah, I read it as 30k requests in a matter of seconds.
• samarudge 15y ago
  Indeed, but Mongo is actually quite good at failing predictably. I think the biggest issue is not Mongo, but failing to test the application correctly. Particularly when working with a new technology. Mongo isn't the best fit for everything but nearly all the issues he describes are more down to not having enough time to plan and test before the project, and one would have probably encountered similar issues if using nearly any software at that scale, with no prior knowledge or tuning.