On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 5:37 AM, <phi...@gmail.com> wrote: > 3) The game server has a player limit of 50000. My requirement/desire is to > be able to serve 50k requests per second (without any caching layer, although > the game server will cache data), so people don't get a poor user experience > during high peaks.
Quick smoke test. How big are your requests/responses? You mention REST, which implies they're going to be based on HTTP. I would expect you would have some idea of the rough size. Multiply that by 50,000, and see whether your connection can handle it. For instance, if you have a 100Mbit/s uplink, supporting 50K requests/sec means your requests and responses have to fit within about 256 bytes each, including all overhead. You'll need a gigabit uplink to be able to handle a 2KB request or response, and that's assuming perfect throughput. And is 2KB enough for you? ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
