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by ljm 919 days ago
There was a time where a request taking even 500ms was considered to be slow, and then all of a sudden it just became normal to see API traces where requests would take over a second, or multiple seconds, and people would just shrug at it.

Even a backend roughly cobbled together in PHP4 with Varnish running on top of it would considerably outperform some of the stuff that is accepted as 'good enough' today.

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> with Varnish running on top

Like it's a trivial task. If it is... the whole system wasn't that complicated and likely similar results could be achieved without external caching.