They are essentially choosing the philosophy of optimizing for speed in every dimension.

The tools selected are faster than their more mainstream counterparts — but since it's a static site anyway, the pre-build side of the toolchain is more about "nice dev ux" and the post-build is more about "really fast to load and read".

Much faster still would be to not set up a container for what appears to be a one-off run of some SSG-generation library on some Markdown files.

I love Caddy and it's fast enough. But it's not the fastest. nginx is generally faster for example.

So I can't agree.