> If you (or your company) are paying cloud fees for hosting your services (including serverless), you are absolutely throwing money away, perhaps for a "good"

> If you (or your company) are paying cloud fees for hosting your services (including serverless), you are absolutely throwing money away, perhaps for a "good" reason ('we have a huge rails codebase'), if you ignore this information. No one "throws away money" based on the Tech Empower benchmark. Because many of those optimizations are not free and, often, are not available. Such micro-optimizations are present in every program. This benchmark is just noise at this point and should be used as an argument against any framework/language. https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks/blob/master/frameworks/C%2B%2B/drogon/drogon_benchmark/plugins/SyncPlugin.cc#L21 https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks/blob/mast...