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I've read your few posts a few times and I'm still not sure why you made your post. You're telling the person that you handle more data than them and thus need more resources than them. Was your goal to smugly belittle them? It's not like they said any problem can be solved on their specific resources.

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Nope, I want to say, that even much more data could be processed on very limited hardware, and that it is additional confirmation that current hardware is immensely powerful and very under-estimated.

And that go-to solutions / golden hammers like REST / JSON are very much suboptimal.

I mean I'm still going to use it for client/server communication and the like because I don't have serious performance constraints enough to warrant something that will be more difficult to develop for etc, but still.

I feel like he’s saying two things.

One, that he’s surprised by how small crypto markets are.

Two, that this one server (or very few server processing) thing scales quite well to billions of messages a day.

I didn’t find any element of smugness here, but maybe I misread the tone.

They are just pointing out the size of crypto market data vs normal market data. I found it interesting, not their fault you didn’t.

I'd initially responded, but I found that my response had an element of a pissing match over whose data is bigger, so I deleted it.

The thing is - when two engineers get smug, oftentimes lots of fairly interesting technical details get exchanged, so such discussions aren't really useless to bystanders.

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