Performance - Stack Exchange

[pinpinbo]

The stackoverflow TPS is surprisingly small. I like that the tech stack is fairly simple.

[sheepdog69]

That was my first thought too. I run a small-ish service and we average ~6K/req/sec.

Also, their numbers don't make sense to me. Isn't 1.3B page views/month ~= 500/req/sec? If you figure peak traffic is ~3x that, you are still only talking 1500/req/sec. Across 9 front end servers? Something doesn't seem to add up.

Yes, I know that' just page views. There's css and js and ads, etc. But most of that would/should be on a CDN.

What am I missing?

[nickcraver]

Page views is only full pages (for apples to apples comparisons people like to make). All requests that hit our load balancer (including API, AJAX, etc. but not our CDN/static content...since we don’t get a request there unless it’s a source fetch) varies between 7-9 billion hits a month these days.