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Except that servers are literally 50-100x more powerful than they were when these sites were built. You just don't need legendary talent anymore to accomplish pretty reasonable scaling with a simple low server count architecture.

It's true! Hardware is powerful enough nowadays to run all those needless microservices and containers. ;-)

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