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		gmokki on July 14, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Scaling to around 15K requests per second with Jav... We did 10k rps almost 20 years ago on pair of Sun x4100 servers. Dual core Opteron@2,4GHz and Java 1.4. And that was with storing data to spinning rust (async) and business logic using custom scripting language.

masklinn on July 14, 2023 [–]

C10k was considered a challenge 20 years ago. This was the reference c10k hardware:

> You can buy a 1000MHz machine with 2 gigabytes of RAM and an 1000Mbit/sec Ethernet card for $1200 or so.

jsd1982 on July 14, 2023 | [–]

IIRC, C10k was about maintaining 10k parallel connections, not requests per seconds.

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