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		Nextgrid on Jan 8, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Production Twitter on one machine? 100Gbps NICs an... I believe that's still the case: https://stackexchange.com/performance 9 web servers to serve the entire network. I wish more developers were aware of just how performant modern (non-cloud) hardware is.

sgt on Jan 8, 2023 [–]

SO only has two proxy servers, in which one is a failover? I bet a lot of people wouldn't believe that if you casually mentioned it.

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