[jasonkester]

I get that feeling too every time I read an article like this.

I develop 90% of my stuff on the Microsoft stack, and it just plain handles anything you can throw at it out of the box. We see 2,000,000 pageviews a day steady state, and very seldom lift the CPU off of zero, with nothing more than bread and butter index and stored procedure tuning.

With that as a baseline, I just don't see why all these little startups are having such problems just keeping their website up under a little traffic. I can't believe that these scripted ORMs are really that inefficient that you'd need to spend this amount of effort bolting 3rd party stuff onto them just to keep them alive.

There has to be something else going on. What, exactly am I missing here?