mikeheath

I think you need to go back to the benchmarks and take a close look at the "Requests/Second" part.

These benchmarks are nothing but speed tests.

I realize you're probably joking (at least, I hope so) but just to talk to the scalability point, I've had much better success scaling Netty (which Vert.x is built on) than Node. I've been able to scale Netty to more concurrent connections and Netty performs much better under load than Node. Just my experience.

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