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> billions of requests per second

Op said "billions of requests per month".

That's ~thousands of qps.


That's nothing.


I can see how it'd be exhausting to have to deal with the responsibility for the entirety of a few services.

A key part of scaling at an org-level is continuously simplifying systems.

At a certain level of maturity, it's common for companies to introduce a horizontal infra team (that may or may not be embedded in each vertical team).


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