[abd12]

Original author here.

The two sentences right before what you quoted are helpful:

"I’m not a Docker or Flask performance expert, and that’s not the goal of this exercise. To remedy this, I decided to bump the specs on my deployments.

The general goal for this bakeoff is to get a best-case outcome for each of these architectures, rather than an apples-to-apples comparison of cost vs performance."

I wasn't trying to squeeze out every ounce of performance and determine the minimum number of instances to handle 100 req/sec. I was trying to normalize across the three patterns as much as possible to see best-case performance. I didn't want resource constraints to be an excuse.

[CaveTech]

I think there’s a pretty big flaw in your benchmark because that failure rate is _insane_ and you shouldn’t need anywhere near that hardware to accomplish this. I don’t think your data is credible as a result.