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This is a 2018 internet-connected app, not a 1985 GSM network.

1 billion 100 Byte messages sums up to an almost trivial 100GB. This might be a technical challenge for the neighborhood's web admin but not for any real company.

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What kind of tyro thinks GB/s instead of ops/s is the right measure here?

This is a text message. Unless you're doing it horribly wrong, ops/s should be very close to the number of messages.

That wasn't the point at all. You were sneering at others because you had converted the numbers into GB/s and those numbers looked small, but the only foolishness was doing the conversion in the first place and the only person doing it was you. A billion messages of any size is nothing to sneeze at. Have you ever worked on a system that handled that many messages in its entire lifetime, let alone a single day?

P.S. There's no such thing as a 1985 GSM network. That phrase just makes your comment look even sillier.

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