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Google search is only 99k qps

• nextworddev 3y ago
  I’m sure there’s massive variance and seasonality around that number
  • tpmx 3y ago
    From my experience with that scale of traffic (with Opera Mini at the time about 250M MAUs and 150k full pageloads/s): There is surprisingly little seasonal variance. You have your weekly/daily traffic rhythms based on when your users are awake/active based on their geographical distribution and that's mostly it. "World events" also have very little impact - they tend to barely make a dent in that massive background noise. Before we had large volumes of traffic I thought we'd be seeing all sorts of unusual peaks, after a few years I realized growth at scale tends to become boring (but in a good way).
• tpmx 3y ago
  Huh. About a decade ago Opera Mini did 150k transcoded full pageloads/s (times about 30 inlines per pageload that was the average back then, so about 4.5 million requested/loaded/processed/compressed HTTP resources/s). (All of the public Google Search numbers I've seen have seemed one or two orders of magnitudes too small. Or maybe most people don't use their search engine/browser as much as I do, so my perspective is skewed...)
• rrdharan 3y ago
  Bigtable does 6B QPS though… https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/youtube-runs-on-bigtable/ https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/youtube-run...
• dilyevsky 3y ago
  That number is off by more than one order of magnitude at peaks