Hibernate Reactive Experiments
Recently IRL (not weekend life) we had to deal with an old Ruby service to get it ready for "Black Friday traffic" i.e. we had to somehow scale it up so it can handle the traffic burst. We tried a lot of stuff but I think we will still end up paying for a lot of AWS dollars since it is a critical service and we err'd on the side of caution. The service itself is quite simple, optimized and performing mostly DB operations and the individual request/response time is very low, however to deal with around 10000 reqs/sec we need a lot of server power. This led me to think, I always wanted to look into stacks which give great response times, but I had not considered "throughput" a lot.