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Comment by kouteiheika

5 months ago

> how does that happen btw?

People write their sites in slow languages "because it's I/O bound anyway" and put content which could easily be static in a DB.

I'm doing a bit of WordPress work lately, and the whole server freezes while it responds to a single HTTP request for several seconds. If you open a bunch of links in new tabs, you can watch them load one by one, for the next 20-30 seconds.

A slow DB. If you were to use Redis as a backing store…

Then you’d almost certainly be overcomplicating things, but it shouldn’t be slow.