Own hardware, bandwidth, caching, load balancing, and lots of cores. Yes, yes, and yes. Triggers fond memories of operating enterprise software. Also nightmares and fires drills.
+ Exiting the cloud (colocation)
+ HAProxy w/many Node backends
+ Go w/clever code
+ ScyllaDB
+ SQLite w/per user databases
+ Redis w/many instances
+ AMD servers w/many cores
+ Purchasing bandwidth directly
Own hardware, bandwidth, caching, load balancing, and lots of cores. Yes, yes, and yes. Triggers fond memories of operating enterprise software. Also nightmares and fires drills.