PHP is 5x Faster Than NestJS? Rethinking High-Load with Swoole.

For years, the industry consensus was clear: if you need high concurrency, non-blocking I/O, and microservices, you choose Node.js (NestJS) or Go. PHP was labeled as the "old-school" language, hindered by its "request-response" lifecycle and the overhead of booting the framework for every single hit. I decided to challenge that stereotype. I built a production-ready High-Load Event Processor capable of handling 10,000+ RPS using PHP 8.3 and Swoole. In my stress tests, this architecture consisten