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…
That doesn’t make sense?
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…
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…
That doesn’t make sense?
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…