> It is an example. It shows you how you can run a service that issues a few hundred million SSL certs a year off relatively few pieces of hardware, i.e. no nee

> It is an example. It shows you how you can run a service that issues a few hundred million SSL certs a year off relatively few pieces of hardware, i.e. no need to go drinking the cloud Kool aid. "100 million certs a year" is only like ~3 certs a second. Maybe twice in peak. That's not much. And you're doing same error, focusing on one core feature and ignoring everything around it