Considering the other article from HN today about Stack Overflow being able to handle their top-100 global Alexa rank traffic with one physical web front end, I'm impressed but not that impressed. PHP has been popular for a long time and lots of smart people have figured out how to make it pretty quick.

For things like blog posts, I'm sad that Movable Type fell out of favor. The pattern of using dynamic server pages to edit blog posts and generate static files for your viewers just makes so much sense to me. Then again, these days we can host our single-page JS front-ends on S3 + CloudFront and hook them up to API gateway and Lambda / Beanstalk talking to RDS and "not have any servers" :)