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I don't see how these guys can think about MAU/DAU to assess DB load and sizing without talking about the rest of the app/arch details. Wouldn't ops/time be mor

• cutemonster 2y ago
  Maybe they mean cases somewhat similar to the software this discussion is about. I.e. load and show stuff from databases (but nothing compute intensive).
• alluro2 2y ago
  Agreed, number of active users cannot make sense as a generic unit across systems... I have 2 systems where in the first (route optimization platform), 1 user would, as part of just a normal 10 minute session: - read ~100MB from the database - utilize 100% of 32-core machine CPU (and 64GB of RAM) - resulting in thousands of writes to the database - and side-effect processing (analytics, webhooks etc) Over a course of a day, it would likely be ~10x for that single user. In the other system - appointment scheduling - 1 user would, in 1 day, read ~1MB of data from the database, and make 2-3 writes from a single action, with maybe 1 email triggered.
  • cutemonster 2y ago
    Can make sense if it's about loading and showing not-too-complicated data, but no intensive computations. Then you can compare roughly similar applications