> ~10k rps (it was concurrent connections but close enough) was state of the art in 1999. Now 22 years later ~50 rps is somehow impressive.
I honestly don't understand how that can be true. I'm not suggesting you're lying of course, but when you put it this way it's almost like people are actively trying to slow their programs down. I have a few ideas on why that might be the case (switch to slow interpreted languages, switch to bigger web frameworks, bigger payload) but even that wouldn't explain all of it. Do you have any idea why things are this way?
I honestly don't understand how that can be true. I'm not suggesting you're lying of course, but when you put it this way it's almost like people are actively trying to slow their programs down. I have a few ideas on why that might be the case (switch to slow interpreted languages, switch to bigger web frameworks, bigger payload) but even that wouldn't explain all of it. Do you have any idea why things are this way?