Fraudulent Benchmarks 
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This video compares the performance of Ruby on Rails and Golang, particularly focusing on requests per second metrics. It highlights that while benchmarks may show Golang handling more requests (e.g., 150k vs. 25k requests per second), these figures are often based on simplistic data payloads like a “Hello World” JSON. When developing real applications, Golang starts strong but its performance advantage diminishes as complexity increases. Conversely, Ruby on Rails starts lower in performance but narrows the gap as features are added. Ultimately, while Golang may excel in raw speed for simple tasks, Ruby becomes competitive for complex, interesting applications, illustrating the nuances in choosing between the two languages based on the project requirements.