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I have 100% failed interviews by giving that answer when their definition of scale was 10,000!!!! req/sec. Like sorry dude in 2026 that's not much different tha
by vrosas 7mo ago
I have 100% failed interviews by giving that answer when their definition of scale was 10,000!!!! req/sec. Like sorry dude in 2026 that's not much different than 10 req/sec and my original design would work just fine... But that's what happens when your interviewer is a "senior" 24 year old just reading off the prompt.
- silveraxe93 7mo ago10,000!!!! is such a huge number I don't think we could even represent with a computer. Being obviously pedantic here, I agree with what you meant.
- IshKebab 7mo agoWell, it depends what those requests are doing surely? I always thought it was weird to treat "request" as a unit of measurement. Are you requesting a static help page, or a GraphQL search query?
- Sohcahtoa82 7mo ago> 10,000!!!! req/sec I've forgotten how to count that low. I'm gonna need a Kubernetes cluster with a distributed database with a caching layer, RabbitMQ/Kafka/whatever, and...