Performance is absolutely a non-issue when modern "engineering" insists on running everything on underpowered VMs with high-latency network-based storage. Even

Performance is absolutely a non-issue when modern "engineering" insists on running everything on underpowered VMs with high-latency network-based storage. Even if your language is truly, actually slow, you can get an instant performance boost just moving that workload to a modern bare-metal server (cloud providers basically ate all the performance improvements of modern hardware), or scale that (most likely stateless) workload horizontally if a single bare-metal machine isn't enough.