Comment by thethimble

We're doing 2k req/s with Laravel for one of our API services. In order to maintain ~150ms of latency, this takes us ~14 c3.2xlarge boxes in a load balanced environment. We've done a lot of tuning to squeeze this much out of the boxes (nginx + php fpm) but ultimately I feel pretty let down by laravel/php. ~150 req/s per c3.2xlarge box is very disappointing. I'm hoping to migrate off and go with something like Scala+Play or even Go perhaps.