{"id":35685,"date":"2025-09-27T10:27:22","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T08:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/looking-for-advice-on-scaling-sec-data-app-10-rps-limit\/"},"modified":"2025-09-27T10:27:22","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T08:27:22","slug":"looking-for-advice-on-scaling-sec-data-app-10-rps-limit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/looking-for-advice-on-scaling-sec-data-app-10-rps-limit\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking For Advice On Scaling SEC Data App (10 Rps Limit)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- SC_OFF --><\/p>\n<div class=\"md\">\n<p>I\u2019ve built a financial app that pulls company financials from the SEC\u2014nearly verbatim (a few tags can be missing)\u2014covering the XBRL era (2009\/2010 to present). I\u2019m launching a site to show detailed quarterly and annual statements.<\/p>\n<p>Constraint: The SEC allows ~10 requests\/second per IP, so I\u2019m worried I can only support a few hundred concurrent users if I fetch on demand.<\/p>\n<p>Goal: Scale beyond that without blasting the SEC and without storing\/downloading the entire corpus.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s the best approach to: \u2022 stay under ~10 rps to the SEC, \u2022 keep storage minimal, and \u2022 still serve fast, detailed statements to lots of users?<\/p>\n<p>Any proven patterns (caching, precomputed aggregates, CDN, etc.) you\u2019d recommend?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- SC_ON -->   submitted by   <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/user\/Ok-Access5317\"> \/u\/Ok-Access5317 <\/a> <br \/> <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/datasets\/comments\/1nrptb9\/looking_for_advice_on_scaling_sec_data_app_10_rps\/\">[link]<\/a><\/span>   <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/datasets\/comments\/1nrptb9\/looking_for_advice_on_scaling_sec_data_app_10_rps\/\">[comments]<\/a><\/span><\/p><div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-right'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style1 like-35685 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='like' data-post_id='35685' data-nonce='65e0e39b87' rel='nofollow'><img class='wti-pixel' src='https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Like' \/><span class='lc-35685 lc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div> <div class='status-35685 status align-right'><\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve built a financial app that pulls company financials from the SEC\u2014nearly verbatim (a few tags can&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-datatards","wpcat-85-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}