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by ilyt 1265 days ago
> People really overestimate the data volume put out by a service like Twitter while simultaneously underestimating the bandwidth capability of a single server.

It's outright comical. Above we have people thinking somehow amount of TLS connections single server can handle is a problem, in service where there would be hundreds of thousands lines of code to generate the content served over it, all while using numbers from what seems like 10+ years old server hardware