How to Handle +725M request per week with PHP - DeveloperJoy
A few days ago, I post an article about how to handle +9M request on a small EC2 instance with Laravel and, on Reddit, they said it's nothing. They said that any service is able to manage that amount of traffic easily.
Today, we're going to talk about my experience at Wallbox, where we handled over 455M requests per week in a PHP service done with Symfony, and over 725M requests per week in total.
Wallbox is the leading supplier of smart EV chargers. Our chargers are connected to the internet 24/7, sending data to the backend every 3 seconds while charging and every 9 seconds when idle.
Our mobile and web apps provide users with real-time information, configuration changes and the ability to make any action or request.
Wallbox receives approximately 455 million requests per week in a single service and 725 million requests per week in all their services combined.
You must have the right tools to monitor your application's performance. You need to be able to monitor the performance of your instances, the CPU and memory usage, and disk space. You also need proper logs to know what's happening and to discover and fix errors. Without the proper logs, each error could be a huge problem.
