Requests per second.
also: RPS · QPS · queries per secondThroughput as requests (or queries) handled each second; estimated as daily actions divided by 86,400, then sized for the peak.
the two-minute refresher
- RPS = daily actions ÷ 86,400 seconds; ÷ 100,000 is a handy shortcut.
- Example: 550 million actions a day ≈ 6,400 RPS on average.
- Peak traffic is a multiple of the average; servers and databases must survive the peak.
- Split reads from writes: read-heavy and write-heavy systems need different designs.