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by cntrl 1132 days ago
500,000 orders per minute on a $6/month server? Which language is able to achieve that?
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Go
If you're going to pull numbers out of a hat at least provide some evidence, especially evidence based on a comparable workload.
I actually wrote a whole article about this myself: https://alicegg.tech/2023/02/06/4dollar-vps.html

TL;DR: go can handle 1000+ RPS on a ridiculously small server

But creating an order isn't just a request. PHP will also handle 1000 RPS of hello world just fine on a 4 dollars VPS.

Maybe (probably) Go is still faster than PHP, but the hyperbole is being pushed a bit too far here.

And what about the database?