MangaDex infrastructure overview
What kills me is that this was a rather pedestrian outcome on a much cheaper 2-core virtual machine back in 2007 or so.<p>I easily got 3K requests / sec out of my <i>laptop</i> at the same time, and it was not a trivial app!<p>People's expectations have shifted so much it's absurd. If you look at the TechEmpower benchmarks, ordinary VMs can easily push 100K requests per second, no sweat, even with managed languages.<p>Trivial stuff like static content being treated <i>as static content</i> (files on the disk!) not as a distributed cache in front of a database can do wonders.<p>Am I just old and jaded?