What is highload?

Question

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Very often I come across the terms “high loads”, “highly loaded web applications”, “highload”, etc. I would like to know the quantitative (absolute or relative) characteristic of high loads or the method of its calculation (with parameters).

Answer 1

for me, in the context of web applications, highload starts with hundreds of requests per second. Requests not to the static content cache, but to the application. It's so rude.

Answer 2

Highload - run into all the restrictions at once.

Answer 3

Highload is when traditional approaches and standard solutions are no longer enough.

Answer 4

Highload is usually used in the sense - "the ability to horizontally scale a web project to any theoretically achievable number of clients."
For numerical names, it’s better for me to use more specific names, for example, the well-established C10K problem , or “how to work with 10,000 simultaneous user connections” on a computer. When working with a torrent announcer, such a problem, for example, arose.

Answer 5

There is no methodology or numbers. Highload is the name of the state of the infrastructure that needs to be optimized and scaled. Those. it's just a description of the state. For example, what is a tired person? One can run 10 km and be tired. Another already after 500 meters and will become tired. They are both tired, but the parameters are different. The same goes for resources. I advise you to read - What is highload?

Answer 6

From this opera

Answer 7

she is not. But the word is really fashionable. Thus, each developer decides for himself what a highlod is for him.

Answer 8

Well, if you have a million customers, then you can safely be called a highload 8)

Answer 9

200k-300k RPS to the service is quite a highload.

Answer 10

Usually this buzzword is used when the current application / environment can no longer cope with the momentary load.
But in reality it means a little different and it is difficult to say specific numbers, everything is relative.

Answer 11

For me, a highload is when one physical server is not enough to serve customers. earlier highload was 20 requests per second (without nginx), now it's probably 100 requests per second not highload (with nginx)
Highload is when the caching administration scaling starts dancing.