On: Java at Alibaba [pdf]

[jjirsa]

There’s probably a 10:1 or 100:1 page view to transaction ratio, and a 10:1 or 100:1 api request to page view ratio

200k transactions is a crazy number - a normal second for amazon is probably a few thousand orders (4-5k). This is 20x higher.

[jjirsa → jjirsa]

This tweet suggests I’m probably off by quite a bit (overestimating amazons orders)

https://twitter.com/joelcomm/status/917229394212675584

That’s $3400/second in transactions for amazon, and certainly their average price/transaction is more than $1:1