It's almost impossible to reach 1000 req/sec in Ruby/Rails. It's relatively easy... | Hacker News

It's almost impossible to reach 1000 req/sec in Ruby/Rails. It's relatively easy to reach 50000 req/sec in C++. Assuming V8 is about 3x slower than C++, it is not surprising that a move Ruby/Rails->node.js gets 10x throughput improvement.