[AWS] Having more then 1000 concurrent connections?

[Marius Amado-Alves]

> Software engineering does not exist in a vacuum, it relies on hard matter
> (silicon, usually) that sits below it.

No. Most program designs rely only on the language. Yes, the language
is a model of the machine, normally via operating system.

> The problem is - the traffic capacity is at least in some degree
> *determined* by the number of cores (why do you think companies buy bigger
> servers to handle bigger traffic?),

indeed one common method of improving the performance of a system is
just to throw more hardware at it (instead of reprogramming)

> which [actually validates, not] blows off your "abstraction layers" argument.

We agree that

Maximum_Number_Of_Tasks = Expected_Traffic * Number_Of_Cores * Some_Constant