Scaling Software/Hardware for a Large # of External API Requests?

It's not obvious to me that you need more resources at all (larger machines or more machines). If you're talking about at most 10 million requests in a day taking at most 2 seconds each, that means.

Rather than using a large number of threads, you might fare better with the event-driven I/O using node. Js with the caveats that it may mean a large rewrite and the fact that node. Js is fairly young.

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