Efficiency of 90s-era CGI Technology in Handling 200 Million Requests Daily
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Summary
The article explores the efficiency of 90s-era CGI technology in serving 200 million requests per day using a Go + SQLite CGI program on modest hardware.
Key quotes
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I got my start in web development with CGI back in the late 1990s - I was a huge fan of NewsPro, which was effectively a weblog system before anyone knew what a weblog was.
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