The majority of web applications handle far less than 1000 requests per second. To be fair, two points: a. The benchmarks do rather easy stuff like fetching r

The majority of web applications handle far less than 1000 requests per second. To be fair, two points: a. The benchmarks do rather easy stuff like fetching rows from SQL and then serving them. No heavier stuff (like compressing a file, etc). b. On the provided benchmark, Ruby on Rails with Unicorn barely achieves 2000 request/sec.