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> slowing down the entire site

This is mind-blowing. Last I checked, the front page of HN sends tens of requests per second to each link. There are humans who can pack envelopes faster than the typical mastodon server can answer GETs. I'd love to see someone benchmark the top servers for a few seconds to see what it takes to break a reasonable latency SLA.

>>NavinF+(OP)
It has been 20+ years since slashdotting with the requisite hardware and connection upgrades and still things fall over.

>>NavinF+(OP)
Clearly they're not microservicing hard enough.

>>crooke+m1
I suggest making the current team explain to 4 new teams how to port it to something fast, like elixir and rust (both!)

Probably messaging with pulsar and the build system from python 4, too.

I read this in a whitepaper. Let’s do this, guys! ;)