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Arguably "we can just put it in docker, and create an auto scaling microservice with a load balancer, behind a CDN for avg request latency" fits this group too. The hoops I have to jump through to get a good user experience on top of our shitty PHP backend are unreal
That's not what I was thinking but I like it! Http caching is pretty magic. Stateless nodes and easy scaling too.
For some kinds of problems you really can't beat varnish and friends. It's how we have Wikipedia, after all.