This document discusses the development of high-performance services at Mail.ru for tasks like serving avatars. It describes how they use technologies like Perl, AnyEvent, IProto and Tarantool to process over 100,000 requests per second on a single server. Key points are: 1. Mail.ru uses Perl 7 with AnyEvent and IProto to build asynchronous services that can handle 40,000-120,000 requests per second per core. 2. They store data in the Tarantool NoSQL database for its performance and ability to handle multiple indexes. 3. By using these technologies like async Perl and Tarantool, they can process over 100,000 requests per second with a