Hacker News Reader

Comment by deelowe | Hacker News Reader

> Troy's intention here is to eventually be soaking a whole lot of zeroes this this

huh?

Sorry, shorthand common in my neck of the woods. Used for any Thing per Your Favorite Time Unit, measured logarithmically. In this case, requests-per-second.

(Edit: ah, typo. s/this this/with this. Clearer?)

Sorry, I still don't understand it.

Could you write out deelowe's quoted sentence, above, as clearly as you're able?

> I'm not sure that you quite realize that Troy's intention here is to eventually be soaking a whole lot of zeroes with this.

Troy's goal is to get this used by a lot of people with a large number of requests per second (so, a number with a lot of zeros in it)

@pbhjpbhj - I believe the meaning of the sentence is that Troy Hunt is expecting/planning for a few orders of magnitude of growth.

"Soak a few zeros" for example going from 1,000 calls per second to 1,000,000 calls per second.

what an odd way to say that.

"Soak" is often used for "take" in engineering circles. "Zeroes" is often used for orders of magnitude in engineering circles. I've never before heard these put together in that fashion, however.

def not clearer. I know we are all supposed to be smart here, but maybe use more common words and language. People come from a lot of different backgrounds here.

On the other hand, I'm happy to learn a new fun term. Language is boring without aphorisms.

Learning 'soak a few zeros' is more valuable to me than the whole rest of this thread. I doubt I'll ever use it, but I like it.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com