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kristiandupont on Oct 23, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Meta reveals serverless platform processing trilli...

>then scaling to 1 trillion per day might be as easy as buying 10k servers [...]

..I doubt that. How would you distribute the requests between those? An instance of mod_proxy_balancer?

fxtentacle on Oct 23, 2023 [–]

DNS round robin so that clients get randomly distributed among multiple load balancers

They have 12m RPS so about 10 HAProxy servers should do the trick.

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