I really liked this recent post by Alejandro about jPOS performance -- not just because of the gracious references to me and Ron, but because it slyly speaks to a common discussion point between me and Alejandro: the hyperinflation of TPS expectations and projections (the result of business plans that say something like "if we only get 1% of the world's volume which should be easy, then that translates to...") vs. the reality of what some of the world's largest established processors do right now.
It's interesting to see in that post that FDR (FDR!) hit 988 TPS on its Black Friday peak. I realize that the FDR universe is split up into various pieces and that that article is probably about what FDR calls its 'Central' platform only, but still: one of the major gateways in the US is clocking a peak < 1,000 TPS. On the other hand, both Alejandro and I have met people plan in hand, 0 TPS in the books, 2,500 TPS in head. [Let's focus on you getting Transaction 001 in the house first, guy.]
In that same vein - here's the world's largest e-tailer announcing its peak Cyber Monday results: 158 items per second (and far fewer checkouts when you think in terms of holiday-sized market baskets).
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