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   Ryan Townsend (ryantownsend@webperf.social)'s status on Sunday, 28-Jul-2024 09:49:58 JST Ryan Townsend

   👏 more 👏 developers 👏 need 👏 to 👏 hear 👏 this

   I can count on one hand the number of my clients over the past couple of years who haven't either over-architected for scale or were unnecessarily concerned about it (prior to coming to me for strategic advice, of course 😉).

   You don't need to understand Distributional Little's Law to figure this out, it's obvious with primary school level math.

   (screenshot excerpt from https://tailscale.com/blog/new-internet)

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     Jens Finkhäuser (jens@social.finkhaeuser.de)'s status on Sunday, 28-Jul-2024 09:50:39 JST Jens Finkhäuser

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     @ryantownsend back in the day, we only measured requests per second. If I read about longer time spans, I already know it's rubbish without looking at the actual number.

     Page views are more realistic in some ways, but they map relatively neatly onto requests once you take caching into account. Modern dev frameworks complicate this as well, but the upshot is, you can still get away with applying an application specific multiplier to request to get page views and vice versa across sufficient...

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