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544,000 payments/sec and world TPC-C record - 707 million tpmC

Singles' Day night 11.11 - 23:59:50. In HQ of Ant Group and Alibaba in Hangzhou, hundreds engineers staring at dashboard screens. This is real money, billions USD of Alibaba getting decided in next few minutes.

00:00:00: Festival starts. Like 1 billion ppl press pay button at same time. Traffic jump from 50k to 544k TPS in like 3 seconds. If something break, Alibaba can lose billions. But dashboard still green. Peak is 544,000 transactions per second.

00:01:08:

first $1B in 68 seconds

date: 2026-01-01T00:00:00-08:00 researcher: thor git_commit: 915711c8a4e60f606a8417ad033cea5385364c07 branch: master repository: postgres topic: "PostgreSQL Connection Limits and Management" tags: [research, codebase, connections, max_connections, limits, PGPROC] status: complete last_updated: 2026-01-01

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	Log uploaded on Sunday, January 4, 2026, 7:34:20 PM
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