We were running a speed test with node vs dotnet core and even on a small Linux box (4GB, 1 core), we could reach nearly 10K concurrent requests for a basic HTT

We were running a speed test with node vs dotnet core and even on a small Linux box (4GB, 1 core), we could reach nearly 10K concurrent requests for a basic HTTP response but the exact nature of the system will affect that massively. Add large request/response sizes or CPU/RAM bound operations and your servers can very quickly reach their limits with far fewer concurrent requests. Architecture is a big picture task since you have to consider the whole system before implementing part of it, otherwise you end up having to start again.