Comment by altfredd
19 hours ago
> you can’t imagine what’s a compute heavy endpoint
Indeed, I can't. Because "compute heavy" isn't a meaningful description. Is it written in C++? Are results persisted anywhere? Is it behind a queue? What is the caching strategy?
Given that original post mentions free Cloudflare tier, there is a good chance, that "compute" might mean something like "ordinary Python application, making several hundreds database requests". This is also a kind of high-load, but not the worst one by far.
I won't be exactly saying what it is to maintain my privacy, but the compute heavy part of it is not your run out of the mill web traffic but rather performs some heavy processing of input files, this part is written in Go.
This function of the website is different from the user-generated content part of the website where the traffic resembles those of regular dynamic websites with database reads and writes.