I'm not sure about the "Useless Blocking Sucks" paragraph, it's very opinionated and using the play framework in production is nothing I would recommend for ent

I'm not sure about the "Useless Blocking Sucks" paragraph, it's very opinionated and using the play framework in production is nothing I would recommend for enterprise deployments. The technology is still very immature and I do not see that the overhead of an extra thread per request would matter.