One of the things that happens when you spend decades (!?) dealing with complex application servers is that you kind of lose touch with what the state of the art is in fast web servers. The last time I remember really paying attention was in 2007 or so, when I remember someone going to great lengths to get 10,000 requests per second out of a single web server. I was impressed – that felt like a huge amount of traffic for a single machine to handle. I’m starting a new side project that wil...
