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A lot of innovation seems to come out of China. I know that, at least in the world of Clojure, the fastest webserver is http-kit, which Shen Feng spent a lot of time developing:

I believe Java, PHP and C++ are the most common platforms for sites built between 10 and 5 years ago, with the exception of Douban.com (where I work) which is Python.

There is a lot of scaling issues and challenges, and some discussion about it during tech conferences. I attended a QCON in Beijing last years and half of the talks where about just that. If you have more precise question you can PM me.

Check out Tengine, it's a fork of nginx made by the Taobao engineers. They also contribute back to nginx.

Couple of links to mailing lists, presentations, papers, etc on that page.

http://tengine.taobao.org/