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Comment by BobbyTables2

1 month ago

I applaud the author’s curiosity but hope they realize this is like comparing the 0-60 performance of a Cadillac SUV vs a Ford Excursion.

A low end ARM processor(like a raspberry pi) can crank out 1000 requests a second with a CGI program handing the requests — using a single CPU core. Of course this doesn’t happen by with traditional CGI. (Actual performance with traditional CGI will be more like 20-50/s or worse).

Like the stereotypical drivers of such vehicles, the industry has become so fat and stupid that an x86 system handling 500 requests/sec actually sounds impressive. Sadly, considering the bloated nature of modern stacks, it kinda is.

True :) My main motivation was to at least realistically move us into a right (simpler) direction - from currently still popular microservices architectures deployed to multi-machine Kubernetes clusters to handle, on average, 5 req/s