[zorkian]

(I work at Discord.)

It's not even the most interesting metric about our systems anyway. If we're really going to look at the tech, the inflation of those metrics to deliver the service is where the work generally is in the system --

* 50k+ QPS (average) for new message inserts * 500k+ QPS when you factor in deletes, updates, etc * 3M+ QPS looking at db reads * 30M+ QPS looking at the gateway websockets (fanout of things happening to online users)

But I hear you, we're conflating some marketing metrics with technical metrics, we'll take that feedback for next time.

[cperciva]

Ideally I'd like to hear about messages per second at the 99.99th percentile or something similar. That number says far more about how hard it is to service the load than a per-day value ever will.

[hsbauauvhabzb]

Wouldn’t a single second slice be of limited value compared to 30+ second samples?