I was running tens of thousands of jobs an hour with an asynchronous AWS SQS job dispatcher written in php that would launch php sub processes on the CLI. Super

I was running tens of thousands of jobs an hour with an asynchronous AWS SQS job dispatcher written in php that would launch php sub processes on the CLI. Super fast. Was able to get by with a very modest ec2 instance ($20/month) handling jobs for 300k users. Was auto scaling too. PHP 8.x has a ton of performance improvements that make what you're saying sort of not relevant anymore. I prefer PHP over Python these days on the Linux CLI. The code is cleaner.