I don't know where you pulled that number out of, but I just used an outdated version of `ab` to request the Hello World page of a fairly heavy PHP framework on a modest virtual server and got over 4k rps. Give me a proper server box and a well-written application, and I'll deliver the 25k rps that you want.
Besides, most webapps spend most of their execution time waiting for the database, memcached, redis, elasticsearch, or whatever. The speed of the language runtime makes very little difference.
I don't know where you pulled that number out of, but I just used an outdated version of `ab` to request the Hello World page of a fairly heavy PHP framework on a modest virtual server and got over 4k rps. Give me a proper server box and a well-written application, and I'll deliver the 25k rps that you want.
Besides, most webapps spend most of their execution time waiting for the database, memcached, redis, elasticsearch, or whatever. The speed of the language runtime makes very little difference.