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> things you do once in your life, or maybe once a year at most I don't think that's the case. Analytics [1] for the top web pages in the US Federal government
by 8organicbits 2y ago
> things you do once in your life, or maybe once a year at most
I don't think that's the case. Analytics [1] for the top web pages in the US Federal government are:
* GSA advantage - a search tool
* Visa instructions - static?
* USPS tracking - a search tool
* ESTA application - a form
* NWS Radar - weather radar
* Sex offender registry - search tool
Checking the weather or shipping a package are much more common than yearly activities.
Of course anything that is static will be behind some sort of cache, but the DevOps team is focused on scaling the dynamic parts.
[1] https://analytics.usa.gov/ https://analytics.usa.gov/
- ndriscoll 2y agoUSPS tracking should be using an indexed id (you don't want to allow partial matches/searches here), so I'd expect even very modest hardware to handle 10s of thousands of requests per second. Likewise with things like CRUD forms. Right now your link shows only ~5700 requests in the last 30 minutes for GSA advantage, or ~3/s. Sex offender registry has ~3500/30m or 2/s. Even USPS tracking is only at ~12k/30m or ~7/s. It's still only 9am on the west coast so maybe they need to handle 100000x traffic for peaks, but I doubt it.