Maybe it&#x27;s a sign of me getting old, but I have never understood the thought process behind building systems which server static content - newspapers, blogs - which require active processing for every request for every user.<p>These are systems where the read&#x2F;write ratios are often 1000:1.<p>Ten years ago this was symptomized by systems which pulled the same content out of a database for every single request. We treated the symptoms by introducing caching servers and horizontal scaling.<p>In modern times the symptom is displayed with heavy use of client-side rendering. Because, you know, this client-side rendering is &quot;free&quot; for the publisher.<p>I don&#x27;t understand how any &quot;Engineer&quot; can see 1000:1 R:W ratios and suggest doing all of the work on the R side of the ratio.