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100k requests being free is an odd flex. You could do 100K of these in a few seconds on a free tier AWS ec2 instance.

• lionkor 2y ago
  Car salesman gets employed by Cloudflare
  • bentlegen 2y ago
    I don't work for Cloudflare?
    • lionkor 2y ago
      Yeah, was talking about the people employed at cloudflare ;)
• bentlegen 2y ago
  Can you do 100k requests/day for free running Kafka, Clickhouse, nginx, some queue-draining code, etc? Clickhouse says the minimum amount of RAM it needs is 8gb. Kafka also needs multiple GB of ram. How small an instance will you get away with?
  • ndriscoll 2y ago
    Why would you run all that for 100k requests/day? That's basically completely idle.
    • bentlegen 2y ago
      Because those are the underlying services that the above software is built on. And they allow the system to handle both very few to many many requests/sec for basically $0. That's the point of the article. To say, "I can run a server that can handle a bunch of requests for free" doesn't mean much. Of course you can do that. But can you replicate the aforementioned system for free? Probably not.
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  • mrits 2y ago
    Yes, you could run all that on an instance < 8GB. I have kafka and clickhouse running on a 2GB vm. I wouldn't choose kafka for this setup as you could just use ch for everything