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> That hasn't been true for a while

For building a traditional monolithic website with server side rendering Rails and Django are far faster to develop in than anything in Go, Java or Node and the overwhelming majority of websites will never run into any performance problems with either.

> By way of contrast several years ago I benchmarked a real application hitting 1000 requests/s on a $20 per month Linode box

I have Rails applications that hit the database on every request doing 1000 rps on $10 a month Digital Ocean boxes. 1000 rps is not that much and all of these performance metrics are meaningless without extensive knowledge of how the application works and exactly what it is doing.