How do I handle a million hits a minute?
jwilliams: Theoretically possible I guess. The current TPCC holder is 6million transactions per minute (mixed workload). But, that was on some, er, serious hardware: http://www.tpc.org/tpcc/results/tpcc_result_detail.asp?id=10...I've personally seen 1000+ tps systems (60,000 tpm), but these were all big iron environments... I've seen commodity based (e.g. x86/Linux) environments up to about half that.However - all of that is just guesswork - A lot of how your would go about this would depend on your data. Are there natural partitions in the data? (time, user, geography, category?).And even if your page is tiny - say 10kb - That's, er - something like 1Gbps sustained (my math might be a bit off)? That's a lot of bandwidth.