Yes, all this 'fundamentally broken' talk is overblown rubbish. I was working on servers handling large numbers of sockets across lots of processes over a decad

Yes, all this 'fundamentally broken' talk is overblown rubbish. I was working on servers handling large numbers of sockets across lots of processes over a decade ago. Scaling non-blocking I/O was a well known area a long time ago, and problems like the 'thundering herd' and others had multiple solutions across a variety of operating systems.