If you’re building web applications, you quite possibly are using a web framework. If you’re hoping a lot of concurrent users will be on your platform, you care about performance and scalability.
I just ran across this set of benchmarks of popular web frameworks:
http://www.techempower.com/blog/2013/04/05/frameworks-round-2/
Take any benchmark with a grain of salt, of course, and there’s more to a framework choice than speed. However I do see two interesting things going on there:
- The java-based frameworks seem to be performing well
- Wow, Ruby on Rails is just about the slowest thing you can use