What are the most difficult tasks you faced when developing the backend without specialized equipment?

When developing a backend without specialized hardware, the following difficulties often arise:

• Limited resources: the lack of powerful servers or specialized accelerators (such as GPUs) forces optimization of code and architecture for efficient use of CPU and memory.
• Scalability: without specialized hardware, it is more challenging to ensure high load and quick response times, requiring careful planning of load balancing and caching.
• Processing large data: operations with large volumes of data can be significantly slowed down without hardware acceleration.

An example solution: using asynchronous programming in Python (for example, with asyncio) allows for efficient use of limited resources and handling many requests without blocking.