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I would love to know what software stack, hardware, and uplink connections in total they utilize to accomplish a real-world 80k request per second throughput. How many instances do you guys think Amazon runs for its primary e-commerce front-end stack? In total, and per region? Assuming they have a multi-region rollout.

If it's the real-deal, and not like people saying "Bun.js can serve 65k req/s+ (cough cough to localhost,)" that's impressive.

But I never see anyone talk about real-world numbers. Just synthetic poopoo.

I think I read the article correctly, but I think it only talks about how they introduce "chaos engineering," I didn't recall them talking about how they actually handle a volume of traffic like 80k req/s.

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