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Re:What I Learned at Stripe by likeabbas on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @10:44AM (#34983552)
A company makes millions of dollars through 4 servers running python?
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Re:What I Learned at Stripe by hbrn on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @02:08PM (#34986827)
Yes, 2-4 web servers. And it's not like they are using most expensive configuration, just 4 vCPU per node. CPU utilization is below 20%, so it could even run on a single node, but that's not good for availability.

Why is that so surprising? Nobody sane does anything CPU-intensive in their webapps.

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