RPS Scale Debates

Comments debate the impressiveness of various requests per second (RPS) figures for web services, converting metrics like daily or hourly requests and comparing them to typical benchmarks or expectations.

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chatmasta Sep 9, 2016 View on HN

Is averaging 4.6k requests per second really that much?

antihero Aug 31, 2011 View on HN

That's about 100requests/sec, which isn't particularly amazing.

dano Jan 16, 2016 View on HN

We see 10,000 req/sec on a regular basis.

snambi Dec 13, 2016 View on HN

million requests per minute, is this a big deal?

samlambert Aug 26, 2022 View on HN

Around ~11k a second. Not small but not insane scale either.

pipe_connector Feb 7, 2023 View on HN

500,000 requests/day is ~6 requests per second.

tacitusarc Dec 7, 2022 View on HN

Do you mean tens or hundreds of thousands of requests per second?

51Cards Feb 14, 2012 View on HN

That's a little over 800,000 requests a second on average. That's some serious traffic.

forgottenacc56 Apr 26, 2015 View on HN

Errr..... 6.5 million requests per second?

nicoburns Sep 7, 2021 View on HN

So 50req/sec. I'd hope it could handle a lot more than that!