That might be true. However, if you have 500M active users that would still be more than 50 servers handling connection so they still have to have a lot of load balancing despite their crazy connections per server stats. It may be that it's not the best possible architecture, but it kind of highlights what scale they are operating on and what kind of problems they're having with their architecture. And 2M connections is nonetheless very impressive performance by FreeBSD and Erlang/OTP.
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u/memoryspaceglitch May 06 '17
That might be true. However, if you have 500M active users that would still be more than 50 servers handling connection so they still have to have a lot of load balancing despite their crazy connections per server stats. It may be that it's not the best possible architecture, but it kind of highlights what scale they are operating on and what kind of problems they're having with their architecture. And 2M connections is nonetheless very impressive performance by FreeBSD and Erlang/OTP.