After seeing some web server benchmarks talking about tens of thousands of requests per second, I’m reminded how out of the norm that is for most web applications. Here I am with 1GB 1CPU nodes (2 for web, 16 workers) handling at most 500 requests per second and 20M jobs per day in a rails app.

Pick tools that make your task easier, and focus on reliability and UX over what web framework would be best if you had Google’s traffic and server costs.