100m Key Lookups/sec with Rest API and Python on AWS with Rondb
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Achieving 100M key lookups/sec with REST API and Python on AWS using RonDB.
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Cost wise, it was 0.0001% of the cost of running the same number of key lookups on DynamoDB.
RonDB is open-source - including the helm charts and grafana infrastructure.
Disclaimer: i work on rondb.