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		kmod on May 11, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Go with PHP I always dislike the "requests per month" metric because it seems like a transparent attempt to impress with a larger absolute number: 500k requests/month is 5sec per request, which feels pretty underwhelming

vntok on May 11, 2023 [–]

We are talking about 500k orders/month, not requests/month.

Placing an order from the Web will almost always involve multiple requests.

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