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Assuming 256 bytes per query (very high estimate) that's about 3851 MB/s or about 3.5 10 Gbit ports Packet count obviously matters, but a KV cache lookup follo
by dmw_ng 3y ago
Assuming 256 bytes per query (very high estimate) that's about 3851 MB/s or about 3.5 10 Gbit ports
Packet count obviously matters, but a KV cache lookup followed by a short reply in the usual case is one of the easiest loads to engineer for
- hotpotamus 3y agoDNS also seems like one of the easiest cases for anycast and Cloudflare also seems like one of the best organizations to figure out that sort of internet hackery.
- zgluck 3y agoSo assuming an efficient implementation and including high availability requirements: probably in the order of tens of machines, maybe hundreds but not thousands. Edit: eastdakota's tweet says 13% of the requests are https- or tls-encrypted. That throws a spanner into these calculations.
- dmw_ng 3y agoI'd imagine somewhere well under 50, probably with plenty of CPUs