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Can you elaborate on how this was arrived at?>if we assume a rate limit of 10 re...

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Sep 24, 2022

Can you elaborate on how this was arrived at?

if we assume a rate limit of 10 requests per second, this would translate into 10 million QPS for our rate limiter! This would be too much for a single server.

Why would it be too much? Is there a calculation that shows this?

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CQ 3 years ago

The assumption is that " If we need to track one million users at any time". We assume each user can make at most 10 request per second. This translate to 10/sec*1 million

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S 3 years ago

But why is 10 million QPS too much for one server? What are the assumptions underlying this?