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Re:Reddit Migrates Comment Back End from Python to Go by tkfoss on Saturday November 29, 2025 @07:56PM (#46092430)
We get 1K on a single small hetzner VPS, with Flask behind Nginx ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Re:Reddit Migrates Comment Back End from Python to Go by Spivak on Sunday November 30, 2025 @05:24AM (#46095481)
Yeah, 25 req/sec/process is abysmally slow. You can write slow in any language.

You don't end up seeing these kinds of complaints about Ruby backends and Ruby is the same order of magnitude in terms of speed.

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