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> then a billion users. If there’s, what, 100,000 seconds in a day, if each user does 10 clicks per day, on average, then I think that gets you a million transactions per second, ballpark

1e9 * 10 / 1e5 = 1e5 transactions per second

Maybe the author needs to apply their advice and start to "think in numbers" \o/

Jokes aside and apart from the really dangerous idea of sleeping less, I really liked the article!




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