Throughput Upgrade (With Train Illustrations!)
blog.healthchecks.io
Due to the nature of cron jobs, our ping endpoints (https://hc-ping.com/... URLs) receive spiky traffic: On average we write ~500 ping requests/second to the database. At the start of every minute, we write around 4000 pings/second. At the start of every hour, we write over 10'000 pings/se
  • cecilkorik@lemmy.caEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I love the train illustrations. I’m not sure they’re that meaningful or accurate, but OpenTTD is my jam so it earned my attention anyway. I guess healthchecks is cool too.

  • alto@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Interesting read, it does seem like time to start looking at horizontally scaling the workers based on request pressure. Having a dynamic number of workers that can do the database updates and then quickly release the mutex should increase throughput.

  • irmadlad@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    The train illustrations are awesome. LOL I have never played OpenTDD before, but at one time I was heavily into Cities: Skylines. Healthchecks.io, from my reading, is pretty cool stuff. I don’t run enough crons to justify all it can do, but still…pretty cool.