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by ericd 2608 days ago
Yeah, you don't know how big you'll need to scale, but I think that's a bit of a boogeyman for a lot of companies. Servers have a relatively massive amount of cores and memory these days, along with screaming fast IO, and you can handle quite a lot of web traffic with only a few dual socket servers if you don't bog them down with incredibly inefficient code.