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It's a bit of a step back in time reading things like this.

This is stateless HTTP requests hitting a relational database. How is this dead horse still being beaten? The patterns for load balancing, horizontal scalability, caching in this space well documented.

What are we gaining still profiling Django, Flask and Ruby on Rails in 2021.

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I suppose every app you work on runs the same query repeatedly? Yes, load balancing makes sense, but the author is specifically looking at requests per thread, i.e., wouldn't it be great (and more cost effective) to get as much throughput from a single thread as possible?

Does this mean you work with a stateful websockets setup? What stack?

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