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Pretty sure you could check a email in a database more than 23 times per second these days.


If it was sane company, you could. When I was doing some support for less sane companies, sometimes their "servers" were less powerful than my phone (hey, it still works after 10yrs, why change it). When my current company made product, everyone in such less sane companies was amazed that we could produce monthly route reports for fleet cars in seconds instead of minutes (and as devs we thought it was still not optimized enough).




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