So useless benchmarks aside, Its possible to write a webserver that can serve 300k requests per second (perhaps more with optimizations). This is a simple hello world benchmark, where the client sends a GET and the server replies with 200 + empty string.  I did some playing around with github.com/vans163/stargate/tree/next (next branch) and rewrote it today into elixir, the motivation was that I attended a talk recently where the presenter spoke about benchmarking pheonix/cowboy vs , and achieve...