One advantage to using sequences (not serial, but close) is that you can drive all IDs from one sequence, helping to prevent mistakes of ID misuse.
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M3 at work, Acer Swift 3 at home. Both are comparable in that regard. You can do 200k QPS of actual work (a little protobuf parsing, a little old-school ML, handling the networking, a little HTTP1.1 parsing, ...), more if you just want vanity metrics, just by wrapping something like uSockets [0] and not doing anything to explicitly pessimize the system.
You can do better with a hand-crafted solution, but most projects don't need anything fancier.
Context is a website, so HTTPS requests per second would be the relevant metric.
How bad is the HN hug of death btw? My laptop can serve 200k QPS per core. I can't imagine HN is that much more intensive? Are 1vCPU VMs just that much worse?
Holy crap what kind of laptop are you running?
The site being currently up does not inspire confidence.
This is just the marketing site.
Reasonable to expect it's hosted on different infra with different reliability
I heard they’re announcing unlimited write-only object storage soon
Perfect place for hosting internal docs
Brambles can trap sheep, benefiting from the sheep as fertilizer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrGobnZq83g
Falling coconuts can not only kill people, but probably kill far more small animals, again benefiting from them as fertilizer,