# Sports Authority handles 2,000 transactions per second with Google Cloud Platform - Host: [googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/hosts/googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com/) - Saved: February 19, 2016 (2016-02-20T01:20:12Z) - Record: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/c72d6659d7d9/ - JSON: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/c72d6659d7d9.json ## From the page (probably an excerpt, not Jamie's words) The requirements for a new solution included finding the customer’s location, searching the 90 million record inventory system and returning product availability in just the handful of stores nearest in location to that particular customer. On top of that, the API would need to serve at least 50 customers per second, while returning results in less than 200 milliseconds. ## Facts - Kind: [Page](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/kinds/page/) ## Same host - [What it looks like to process 3.5 million books in Google’s cloud](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/dff71dff4ed6/) (googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com, February 17, 2016) ## Saved the same week - [Why I No Longer Use MVC Frameworks](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/673ce067166b/) (infoq.com, February 19, 2016) - [Email Overload: Research and Statistics](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/4243a6c60626/) (blog.sanebox.com, February 19, 2016) - [Challenges Faced in Distributed Development | ThoughtWorks](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/17a5f5d324bd/) (thoughtworks.com, February 19, 2016) - [An Introduction to APIs with Phoenix](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/53bd59412541/) (blog.codeship.com, February 19, 2016) - [Feeble Noise Pollution — Medium](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/63c71e2aab79/) (medium.com, February 20, 2016) ## Elsewhere - Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com/2016/02/Sports-Authority-handles-2000-transactions-per-second-with-Google-Cloud-Platform.html