Just did some performance tests with Play 1.2.4 and memcached. Serving
a landing page from a 2 server EC2 cluster.
page has 2 db lookups (SimpleDB) but these are cached using
memcached.
We got a steady 650 hits per sec throughput and 3500kb/s average which
is very good.
Did another test with Dynamo that was not good, however Dynamo is
provisioned for a certain level of read/writes per sec, and that level
was set low, so the test was invalid. Will report back when we get
real data.
If you can use memcached for reads, it's going to be faster by a wide
margin and cheaper too.
I'm interested in what level of writes per sec is really possible with
Dynamo and people's experience with it.