Generating 1 Million PDFs In 10 Minutes
- Erik Steiger tl;dr: “Generating 1 million PDFs in 10 minutes is no joke. That’s 1,667 PDFs per second, or ~0.6ms per PDF. With common PDF generators that take around 1 second each, we would need 11.5 compute days. Or 10 minutes times 1667 vCPUs—assuming they scale nicely.”featured in #611
1.5+ Million PDFs In 25 minutes
- Sarat Chandra Karan Sharma tl;dr: “In this blog post, we describe our journey of building an architecture from scratch which now enables us to process, generate, digitally sign, and e-mail out 1.5+ million PDF contract notes in about 25 minutes, incurring only negligible costs. We self-host all elements of this architecture relying on raw EC2 instances for compute and S3 for ephemeral storage. In addition, the concepts used for orchestration of this particular workflow can now be used for orchestrating many different kinds of distributed jobs within our infrastructure.”featured in #492
Making A PDF That’s Larger Than Germany
- Alex Chan tl;dr: “We’re meant to just accept that a single PDF can only cover about half the area of Germany, and we’re not given any reason why 381 kilometres is the magic limit. I started wondering: has anybody made a PDF this big? How hard would it be? Can you make a PDF that’s even bigger?”featured in #485