I have to imagine, that the actual 'report' was that 'apache 2.4 is faster than nginx in certain situations'. This would certainly seem to back that up: http://mondotech.blogspot.com/2012/02/apache-24-vs-nginx-ben...
Jim Jagielski is the ASF President
Source: http://www.serverwatch.com/server-news/apache-2.4-delivers-m...
Seems like it'd be a lot more constructive to say, "Hey, it's not true out of the box, but here are settings you can fiddle with that, if they work in your situation, could make Apache a better option than Nginx." Anybody want to write that blog post? :)
I'm frankly really tired of operating on cargo cult programming when it comes to my server packages. They're totally opaque to me, since they're huge pieces of software.
Is MongoDB fast? What about Riak or Couch or whatever? What does "fast" mean?
I want charts, damnit, and comparison tables with feature matrices and stuff that can used toe evaluate and, hell, I want you to put up vagrant images so I can run these tests myself.