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Stephen Downes

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We've all heard those stories about the government web app that crashes as soon as it's launched. Corporate and institutional web apps can be as bad. The reason is that serving a billion requests is very different from serving a few thousand. This article describes the process of building a billion-request website that did not crash. That doesn't mean the process was flawless - they came to regret using React (for these reasons) after a few years. Using gRPC (a request protocol) "was not as great for us as I'd hoped."

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