fourier76

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   by fourier76 7y ago

   Sure, but just because the average is 278 per second doesn’t mean the events happen at that rate. Bursts are way harder to process, which is much more typical. But someone writes an article like “How We Handle X things every Y”, and inevita
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   by fourier76 7y ago

   That doesn’t make sense?
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   by fourier76 7y ago

   What if you get one push event on the first second, and then 999,999 on the last second? Still one million per hour. Don’t assume the events are evenly distributed. I see this a lot on HN. Yes, 1,000,000 divided by 3600 is indeed about 278,