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Russ’ 10 Ingredient Recipe for Making 1 Million TPS on $5K Hardware

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Re: Russ’ 10 Ingredient Recipe for Making 1 Million TPS on $5K Hardware

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Is there a domain where this is applicable outside of high performance trading? I'm trying to think of another use case that would legitimately generate 1M queries/sec.

A few off the points is applicable at much lower QPS than 1 million, especially in a virtualized environment such as EC2.

For example, I've had some issues with CPU (on core 0) saturation for soft interrupts on EC2, related to processing network packets.

Re: Russ’ 10 Ingredient Recipe for Making 1 Million TPS on $5K Hardware

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I'd have to guess that they're limiting themselves to a specific platform (hardware & software). Probably selling an appliance would be best way for them, instead of dealing with sysadmins that don't understand how to properly configure the database on their machines.

Re: Russ’ 10 Ingredient Recipe for Making 1 Million TPS on $5K Hardware

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Is there a domain where this is applicable outside of high performance trading? I'm trying to think of another use case that would legitimately generate 1M queries/sec.

Some of the larger combats (5000+ ships) in EVE Online might do that.

(I single EVE out because other MMOs generally shard by user-cohort, so having that number of people on one shard is impossible. EVE, meanwhile, shards by location within the virtual world (each star system is a shard), so the entire player-base can "gather" on a single shard for a confrontation.)

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