Category Archives: IT Infrastructure

Scaling the peaks of Black Friday, Bob Hope and how RichRelevance slays the holiday rush

by Kevin Duffey in Cloud Computing, Data Performance, IT Infrastructure, Personalization, RichRelevance Team on November 30, 2011

Jan 2011 after the 2010 holiday season…. Still in the glow of 100% uptime, response rates around 80ms, 5.5K requests per second served at peak. We’re all sitting around in IT Ops excited, pumped and ecstatic for our performance. We’re beating our chests and basking in the glow of success. 5500 Requests per Second (RPS) … Continue Reading