Handling 1B requests with Symfony 2

[webdisrupt]

http://labs.octivi.com/handling-1-billion-requests-a-week-with-symfony2/

[juandazapata]

Click bait. They mention that they can handle 700 req/s with Symphony, then HAProxy helps to scale up to 1600 req/s. The 1B figure is in 1 week.

[geerlingguy → juandazapata]

More specifically, requests are routed through HAProxy to Varnish, and then, if not cached, they'll hit the backend. I'm surprised they couldn't get up to 5-10,000 req/s, honestly. Maybe payload size/bandwidth limited.

500+ req/sec is decent for a Symfony app, so they should've focused on that metric and the app itself.

[obilgic]

Please update title: 1B/week requests

[leeoniya]

or using units not chosen for dramatic effect: 1653 req/s

[vpkaihla → leeoniya]

How they got Varnish to run so slowly is indeed an interesting result :P

[bsaul]

Damn, that dependency injection code inside comments... How long will developpers tolerate this kind of mess ?

[vpkaihla]

In what, a decade?

Seriously though, this is "Handling 1B connections in a week with Varnish".

[romanovcode]

So basically strip Symfony2 to nearly nothing? (they removed rendering engine and orm)