[coldtea]

>Simply booting up a single core http server should net you around 4-5k requests per second.

There's no such thing as "requests per second" generally. It's requests per second for a specific workload.

So, whether Node can do 4-5k rps with "hello world" doesn't matter much. It's the same engine that needs to also do the further processing for each fuller request.

[aliostad]

My understanding is that they hand just off the payload to another queueing mechanism. So it just returns ACK and done.