Web apps are generally IO bound by the database. Hardly any time gets spent in cpu even in python. There could be a number of things contributing to having to h

Web apps are generally IO bound by the database. Hardly any time gets spent in cpu even in python. There could be a number of things contributing to having to horizontally scale python more than compiled frameworks. Many apps are still stuck on non-async frameworks. Many devs are also bad at knowing how not to block server processes.