"We were mostly I/O bound so we knew we’d like to use gevent’s quick task switching so we could write the maximal amount of data per-process. A single process really constrained us to one vCPU. Therefore, to speed it up meant running more than one process."
Wait. What?! The response to being I/O bound is not using more processes...
Wait. What?! The response to being I/O bound is not using more processes...