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One million HTTP RPS without load balancing is easy

TechEmpower

40 threads and 256 connections Thread Stats Avg Stdev Max +/- Stdev Latency 247.05us 3.52ms 624.37ms 99.90% Req/Sec 27.89k 6.24k 50.22k 71.15% 31173283 requests in 29.99s, 3.83GB read Socket errors: connect 0, read 0, write 0, timeout 9 Requests/sec: 1039305.27 Running 30s test @ [link]. Transfer/sec: 130.83MB. send(aByte); } }.

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Interview: Thorsten von Eicken of RightScale

InfoChachkie

In the summer of 2006 over a cup of Peet’s Coffee, you told me about this new thing called “cloud computing” and that you were trying to come up with a creative way to incorporate it into the curriculum of your upcoming UCSB Computer Science class. The term ‘cloud computing’ only caught on much later. Luck has got to play a big role here!

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Data is the Next Major Layer of the Cloud & A Major Victory for Startups

Both Sides of the Table

At the time we viewed Amazon’s offering, EC2 as too nascent. If you look at any graduating class of Y Combinator they’re filled with application companies launching new, experimental services that change the way we work and live. This is where the rubber hits the road for us as users.

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