nginx’s ngx_http_headers_module provides the expires option, which control the Expires and Cache-Control HTTP headers.
For example, this will set expiration to the maximum expiration
location /media/js { expires max; } location /media/css { expires max; }
Google App Engine: Royal Wedding: 32,000 requests/sec
The Royal Wedding site was hosted on App Engine and received 32,000 requests per second.
Using MySQL as a NoSQL – 750,000 qps on a commodity server
The highest throughput was as follows:
approx qps server CPU util MySQL via SQL 105,000 %us 60% %sy 28% memcached 420,000 %us 8% %sy 88% MySQL via HandlerSocket 750,000 %us 45% %sy 53%
MongoDB in the Amazon Cloud
While tempting, running databases in the cloud is not as simple as Amazon makes it sound. Reddit felt that with their Cassandra and PostgreSQL deployment.