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by morelisp 1979 days ago
> I know people will complain about speed of execution of language and framework but do you really care if you are not expecting Google like traffic.

It's not about whether you expect Google-like traffic, but about whether you expect a Google-like ratio of traffic/compute to capacity. My day job doesn't deal with "Google-like" traffic (maybe one Google product's worth of traffic), but we also only have about 10 servers to ingest what we do get. My current side project I expect to deal with even fewer orders of magnitude but I also want to be able to run it on a single server to keep costs and operational overhead low.