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A URL shortener creates 100 million new links a month, and each link is read 100 times for every time one is created. What is the average read load?

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Answer

About 3,900 reads/s. In review, anything from 1,950 to 7,800 counts as right.

The worked estimate

A 30-day month is 30 × 86,400 ≈ 2.6 million seconds. Writes: 100,000,000 ÷ 2,592,000 ≈ 39 a second. Reads are 100× that: 39 × 100 ≈ 3,900 reads/s on average, so the system is clearly read-heavy and a cache in front of the database pays off.

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