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by programmer_dude 1686 days ago
LOL, why do you need an "accelerator" for this?
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It’s explained in detail in the article.
It's about accelerating the networking performance from the user to a server doing the work. You don't need to do it but it's always going to be a limit on performance if you don't, no matter how fast you make the application server itself.