[facorreia]

It's just a misguided benchmark. It contains statements such as "Java applications cannot match a fraction of other language's performance." That's in contrast with the experience of companies such as Twitter, LinkedIn and Yammer.

[na85]

Performance matters much less on the web.

[Fishkins]

The point is, at least in the case of Twitter, they switched from Ruby to Java/Scala because they needed performance. Before that you could have been forgiven for thinking twitter was just a static page displaying the fail whale.

[peterwwillis]

s?on the web?when you can scale your infrastructure horizontally using asynchronous, connectionless queries distributed across a global network with large peers, layers of caching and a set of uniform standards to interact with client/server applications?g