Serving 200 million requests per day with a cgi-bin

In the early 2000s, we used to write a lot of CGI programs. &#xA; This was the primary way to make websites dynamic at the time. These CGI programs were usually written in Perl, but sometimes in C to increase performance. &#xA; The CGI mechanism is conceptually simple but powerful. When the web server receives an incoming request handled by a CGI script (e.g. GET /~jakegold/cgi-bin/guestbook.cgi…