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by ec109685 1568 days ago
Yes, they could have rewritten their stack and used different technology on server and client.

Instead, this blog post shows they made small changes that resulted in a much better performing site with less server resources needed.

The idea of dropping server side rendering if the site is temporary overloaded is a good one that you can’t do if built in Java, .Net and Go.

A fork exec web server is not convoluted.