On a more technical note, I find it interesting that since #dotnet is so efficient with JSON (processing JSON is most of the work that has to be done to run a service like this), more than half the CPU time is actually used by the kernel networking stack handling a few hundreds requests per second (both inbound and outbound)!
I guess the spare Raspberry Pi 4B that I have will come to the rescue and offload some work!
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