alt Hacker News100k(s) orders per minute is several orders of magnitude more than realistic. Amazon does 20k orders per minute.
Instacart doesn't need "100,000s of grocery delivery orders per minute".
There must be some 0s added for the sake of the story.
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nijave • today at 7:31 PM
That doesn't necessarily mean _new_ orders per minute. Their app or website could poll for updates every 15 seconds
Could just be looking at the "orders" endpoint in their app which might also include incremental updates as shoppers get items from the store. It's a fairly ambiguous statement
dotancohen • today at 6:54 PM
Amazon does 20k peak, or 20k average? Website visitor peaks could easily be two orders of magnitude higher traffic than average for a few minutes.
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According their 2026 Q1 filing they do about 90 million orders per quarter which is about 12 orders per second, 720 orders per minute.
It might make 100k row level changes per minute, but that’s a different metric.
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1579091/000157909126...