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Tower Defense: Cache Control

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harrall ◴[16 May 25 17:15 UTC] No.44007791[source]▶
Read your CDN docs very carefully on how it processes requests. Make sure that your CDN does request coalescing.

At my previous job, I became responsible for handling >350,000 requests/second and I dug so deep.

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hacb ◴[17 May 25 13:39 UTC] No.44014256[source]▶
\> 350,000 req/s? That's really impressive. May I ask in which area you were working?
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1. harrall ◴[17 May 25 22:06 UTC] No.44017365[source]▶
It was something to do with consumer releases (e.g. product launches) so we had to handle extremely sudden bursts in traffic.

We leveraged the CDN heavily but I had to drill down and dive deep into the specifics of our CDN and our stack. One mistake might mean turning 10,000 into 100,000 requests and over 100 million requests, it would become a big(ger) deal.