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The nice thing about CGI is that you don't have to reinvent isolation primitives for multi-tenant use cases. A bug in one request doesn't corrupt another request, due to process isolation. An infinite loop in one request doesn't DoS other requests, due to preemptive scheduling. You can kill long-running requests with rlimit. You can use per-tenant cgroups to fairly allocate resources like memory, CPU and disk/network I/O. You can use namespaces/jails and privilege separation to restrict what a request has access to.


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