Can't comment on Python, but I once worked on a Node.js codebase that could only handle tens of requests per second, it was highly unusual and doing some incred

Can't comment on Python, but I once worked on a Node.js codebase that could only handle tens of requests per second, it was highly unusual and doing some incredibly dumb things like pinging out to Redis to check for DDOS protection counters before starting to serve any request. See: https://www.fastify.io/benchmarks/ https://www.fastify.io/benchmarks/ Node is more susceptible to poor code and out of band IO slowing it down, but the V8 runtime itself is cpp and simple services are close to just writing decorators over a cpp webserver. It's obscenely fast and good enough for most purposes.