Wasn't the original target of nginx back in the nineties to hit 100k requests per second with less overhead than (at the time, standard) apache2? With that in

Wasn't the original target of nginx back in the nineties to hit 100k requests per second with less overhead than (at the time, standard) apache2? With that in mind + the general advancing of hw since then, it wouldn't be too suprising if nginx could handle that load easily. It'd just get more difficult if you wanted to put anything else (ie. metrics) on that endpoint since afaict nginx doesn't have anything to monitor those things if you don't have the Enterprise version of their tools. In any case you might be misreading the setup for the parent here - the recommendation is just that if you're doing this in the context of a webapp, that this sort of behavior is trivially easy to bounce back in JSON using nginx.