[ilya_b]

If you are running Apache Tomcat (or anything based on Coyote), as I can see from headers, you are _already_ serving slower than Node. Just because Tomcat needs more time to parse and return the response than Node. Only Jetty with NIO connector has comparably high speed. (Yes, I've tested by myself).

And, JFYI, you have to move static content to nginx or lighthttpd, Coyote serves static files even worse than Apache web server.

All you say about functionality of the platform has no relation to the speed.

[moe]

Why this obsession with app container performance?

It does not matter either way in practice. People are running large websites on ruby, remember?