> a raspberry pi can pretty much serve 100k req. / second. An average dev laptop should be able to handle 1M req. / second without much issues Depends on what

> a raspberry pi can pretty much serve 100k req. / second. An average dev laptop should be able to handle 1M req. / second without much issues Depends on what you do. It's quite easy to hit these numbers with a low number of static pages, but apps that can easily work with static pages usually don't have DevOps people. That's why I went with thousands, to have a reasonable number for an app that actually does some complex processing.