Extreme HTTP Performance Tuning: 1.2M API req/s on a 4 vCPU EC2 Instance

This post will walk you through the performance tuning steps that I took to serve 1.2 million JSON "API" requests per second from a 4 vCPU AWS EC2 instance.
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