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		latchkey on Jan 17, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Spotify position in support of systemd in the defa... The bigger question here for me is why Spotify needs 5000 physical servers.

brokenparser on Jan 17, 2014 [–]

Not only that, but why with that many servers pages (playlist top, artist/album details, etc) are often very slow to load.

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