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"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> writes:
> No. Actually time constraint is interchangeable with load. If you have
> many thousands of metering devices, then even if they report once in 5
> minutes, with about 100 variables it does a lot of traffic and load no
> scripting language can handle on either side.

On the client side that's almost nothing.  On the server side, scaling
horizontally is the in thing. ;).  30k devices each reporting every 5
minutes is still just 100 per second which is no big deal for a
reasonable server these days no matter what it's written in.  3 million
devices gets more interesting.