"to get Tomcat to produce good performance under load" Tomcat is a servlet reference implementation, and is good as a development application server. But for a

"to get Tomcat to produce good performance under load" Tomcat is a servlet reference implementation, and is good as a development application server. But for anything serious in production, get JBoss or something. I know the Tomcat team has been working hard on making it more robust, but still! I think some people/companies and some languages are just meant for each other. Looks like these folks just got into Java through the wrong door. The switch to Python could only make a lot of sense to them. And I'm glad they did.