Originally Posted by RChavez

Of course, I may be biased as a Java engineer, but I can say with complete certainty that there is at least one example of an application written entirely in Java that is responsible for handling hundreds of flight availability queries per second, and it doesn't bat an eyelash. Now granted, this is across all instances of the application, but I guarantee there aren't hundreds of instances deployed in parallel. I'll give you a hint. Its mother-ship is also a type of sword.