Single-Process Architecture: A Graceful Solution for Modern Web Development

While updating his blog's software, the author found a single-process architecture to be simpler than his CGI-based approach for handling the complexities of the modern web. A single process allows easy access to shared state, simplifying tasks like detecting malicious traffic, rate-limiting requests, and implementing caching. While memory and CPU usage are concerns, the ease of implementation makes a single-process architecture advantageous when dealing with various forms of abuse, especially those that are unforeseen. The author believes that as web abuse increases, single-process architectures will become increasingly important.