haha not quite, db was struggling under the load for a few minutes. b1ms postgres doesn't love 6k requests in 30 mins.

firefoxd 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

A 30 second memcached/redis/etc goes a long way when sharing on HN. You go from 6k db hits to 60 hits in 30 minutes. Worked for me since 2013 [0].

[0]: https://idiallo.com/blog/handling-1-million-web-request

	▲	theazureguy 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		already on it, just shipped in-memory output caching while the thread was live. next step redis if it needs it

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kaiwn 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

That’s… 3.3 r/s?

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GordonS 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Those tiny b1ms VMs are absolutely pitiful (long time Azure sufferer here). It's crazy how little compute and memory Azure give you for so much money.

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theazureguy 9 hours ago | parent [-]

yeah scaling it up now, was hoping to keep costs down but HN had other ideas

	▲	isoprophlex 8 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Using azure managed PG is certainly an interesting choice if you were hoping to keep costs down
	▲	alentodorov 6 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		try CF. tried a version of this in feb, and it handles quite fine even under ai bot surges of 1.5m hits per day. and it’s still within the free limit btw ;) stationwatch.co.uk