Threading from a single process is just a bad scaling strategy anyway so GIL is rarely an issue so you're right most big web stuff does indeed use a database/queue/cache layer for orchestrating multiple processes.
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Threading from a single process is just a bad scaling strategy anyway so GIL is rarely an issue so you're right most big web stuff does indeed use a database/queue/cache layer for orchestrating multiple processes.