So assuming your code is 5 times worse that still fits within one rack

> I'm saying those folks are atypical)

Calling "write not shit code in language that's not dog slow" "atypical" is sad state of our industry.

Also in many cases you can get a lot out of caching if you do it smartly.

We did very similar with a Java stack without even trying really. Competitors using things like Ruby and went all in on distributed messes had hundreds of servers but we had about 15. It does require you to be aware of performance, but I wouldn't call it difficult or particularly time consuming.

What are you saying by pointing out that they use the dotnet stack?

It’s interesting trivia to be sure, but I’m wondering if you were making a point with that