Even on ten year old hardware single digit ms latency in Java server apps wasn't very special. Java (JVM) is an extremely performant platform so I always find o

Even on ten year old hardware single digit ms latency in Java server apps wasn't very special. Java (JVM) is an extremely performant platform so I always find odd how a meme has somehow built up on it being otherwise. True that one can end up writing terribly inefficient Java code, but one can write terrible code in any language. If I need to write server code where performance is particularly important and I don't want to deal with the cost (in debug time and dev expertise) of C or C++, Java would be my first choice. Also I'm of the school of thought that performance always matters. Autoscaling in cloud providers sure makes it easy to scale horizontally to make up for slow server code, but once you reach certain size, go have a chat with the finance team about the AWS bill.