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leeoniya
or using units not chosen for dramatic effect: 1653 req/s
vpkaihla
How they got Varnish to run so slowly is indeed an interesting result :P
obilgic
Please update title: 1B/week requests
juandazapata
Click bait. They mention that they can handle 700 req/s with Symphony, then HAProxy helps to scale up to 1600 req/s. The 1B figure is in 1 week.
geerlingguy
More specifically, requests are routed through HAProxy to Varnish, and then, if not cached, they'll hit the backend. I'm surprised they couldn't get up to 5-10,000 req/s, honestly. Maybe payload size/bandwidth limited.

500+ req/sec is decent for a Symfony app, so they should've focused on that metric and the app itself.

bsaul
Damn, that dependency injection code inside comments... How long will developpers tolerate this kind of mess ?
romanovcode
So basically strip Symfony2 to nearly nothing? (they removed rendering engine and orm)
vpkaihla
In what, a decade?

Seriously though, this is "Handling 1B connections in a week with Varnish".