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One million HTTP RPS without load balancing is easy

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As we and our collaborators prepare Round 9 of our Framework Benchmarks project, we had an epiphany: With high-performance software, a single modern server processes over 1 million HTTP requests per second. It''s possible even higher numbers would be reported had we tested a purpose-built static web server such as nginx.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

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As I write these words I’m aware that I could practically change the words AOL and Facebook for much of this section and with a few factual tweaks it might not be noticeable to the reader which of the firms I was talking about. Was it massively better software, better companies, better markets? It was mostly timing.