Yeah, that's the same conclusion that I came to myself. In my past experience the bottleneck is almost always the database but throw in Laravel and it takes some serious hardware just to stay afloat.
I recently started thinking about switching languages and like everyone I know I started with Node.js first. I found myself rapidly infuriated with it and decided to try out Go. I wrote a quick S3 upload demo app just to grok it and I was thrilled with the results. Scala outperforms Go but I like Go a little more for rapid app dev. If you decide to take the plunge do let us know how it goes!
I recently started thinking about switching languages and like everyone I know I started with Node.js first. I found myself rapidly infuriated with it and decided to try out Go. I wrote a quick S3 upload demo app just to grok it and I was thrilled with the results. Scala outperforms Go but I like Go a little more for rapid app dev. If you decide to take the plunge do let us know how it goes!