Twitter is a one-in-a-thousand company with traffic amounts that most of us here will dream of ever achieving. And not every low-traffic site is simple CRUD. I

Twitter is a one-in-a-thousand company with traffic amounts that most of us here will dream of ever achieving. And not every low-traffic site is simple CRUD. If you do image processing, applying machine learning, natural language processing (or a thousand other things that are CPU intensive), it's nice that you can directly use one of the many high-performance libraries available in the Central Repository in your webservice.