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by syngrog66 1522 days ago
plus caching, indexes and smart code algorithms go a looooooooong way

a lot of "kids these days" dont seem to learn that

by that I mean young folks born into this new world with endless cloud services and scaling-means-Google propaganda

a single modern server-class machine is essentially a supercomputer by 80s standards and too many folks are confused about just how much it can achieve if the software is written correctly