> This being C, I assume the performance is really good The choice of programming language affects performance much less than the quality of the architecture,

> This being C, I assume the performance is really good The choice of programming language affects performance much less than the quality of the architecture, algorithms, data structures and just plain coding skills. > "With balde you can serve hundreds of requests per second" A simple Netty-based Java web server can do tens of thousand requests per second easily on a laptop (I'm taking these numbers from our current project, and we didn't spend any time on any real optimizations for speed yet).