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monday.com rebuilds its API edge for agent traffic

The rebuild replaced Apollo Router and a Node.js coprocessor. It handles 2.5x weekly traffic on 92 percent less CPU and 80 percent less memory.

Read the source at engineering.monday.com

What the research found

monday.com rebuilt its API edge for agent traffic, replacing Apollo Router plus a Node.js coprocessor, handling 2.5x weekly traffic on 92 percent less CPU and 80 percent less memory with a 100 ms p99 budget.

Claims and how well the evidence supports them

  1. monday.com weekly API edge requests grew 2.5x in a year, from about 1 billion to about 2.5 billion 99%
  2. The rebuilt edge uses 92 percent less CPU and 80 percent less memory than a year ago 98%
  3. The edge target is adding no more than 100 ms to a request at p99 98%
  4. The old edge was an Apollo Router with a Node.js coprocessor 99%

Evidence

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