not understanding how we need 37K servers for quora. if we have 69K requests/second, and each server can service 8K requests/second, then the number of servers should be ceil(69000/8000), right?
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yes, it is not correct in the course.
Thanks for posting this. I was also confused on their math and was sure this couldn’t be accurate.
Course: Grokking Modern System Design Interview for Engineers & Managers - Learn Interactively
Lesson: Requirements of Quora's Design - Grokking Modern System Design Interview for Engineers & Managers
Dear Jonathan, Bakish, and Altoid,
Thank you for your patience. Over the past few weeks, we have been diligently working on revamping back-of-the-envelope calculations for the entire course and have now updated them.
Thank you