And you think your system handles a high transactional volume?

My buddies at work always start chuckling when we look at some performance stats on our middle tier system. We proudly proclaim how we are pushing 5 transactions / second with a quarter second response time on average. This is all somewhat tongue-in-cheek, as we are very aware that this is child's play.

So, when I was reading the Amazon Web Services Blog about how they peaked out 70,000 transactions / second, I could help but laugh harder. Damn, I wish I had the opportunity to work on that type of system.

"Our customers are keeping S3 pretty busy too. To give you an example of what this means in practice, the peak S3 usage for October 1st was over 70,000 storage, retrieval, and deletion requests per second."

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Goes to show just how small of a fish I really am in this big ocean.