alt Hacker Newshaha not quite, db was struggling under the load for a few minutes. b1ms postgres doesn't love 6k requests in 30 mins.
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kaiwn • yesterday at 6:03 PM
That’s… 3.3 r/s?
GordonS • yesterday at 4:21 PM
Those tiny b1ms VMs are absolutely pitiful (long time Azure sufferer here). It's crazy how little compute and memory Azure give you for so much money.
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A 30 second memcached/redis/etc goes a long way when sharing on HN. You go from 6k db hits to 60 hits in 30 minutes. Worked for me since 2013 [0].
[0]: https://idiallo.com/blog/handling-1-million-web-request