<p><pre><code> Stats
* 60 messages per second
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* 26 front end proxy serves. Double that in backend app servers.
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78 servers for 60 messages per second?<p>We have one MSSQL box at work here that is regularly doing 2,500 queries/sec and that's an OLTP workload so easily more than 60 writes/sec.<p><i>serves</i> makes me think that someone didn't proof-read the article...