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by 10000truths 1661 days ago
The secret is keeping performance in mind throughout your whole tech stack and in your application code. Do that, and you might not even need to scale beyond a couple machines for redundancy, depending on your SLOs.

I’ve said this a couple times before, but it bears repeating - nginx can easily serve a million 1 kB static files per second over TLS from just one machine with a modern Xeon/EPYC CPU. Serving dynamic content doesn’t have to perform any worse than one or two orders of magnitude below that.