> Not all req/s are made the same.
> Amazon search is made of 100s of services, and Amazon's search page loads 20 products per page, that means 80k search req/s translates to 1.6 MM product API req/s for example.
That's their problem, no? Nobody's forcing them to have an architecture where a request propagates to hundreds of services.
That's their problem, no? Nobody's forcing them to have an architecture where a request propagates to hundreds of services.