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0 pointsdylan6044y ago0 comments

You must have a very low level of expectations of your fellow HN reader if you think that anything above a Hello World tutorial is relatable to a regular developer.

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lmilcin4y ago

How frequently do you test a new web framework with "10MB compressed JSONs"?

On the other hand you can find a lot of benchmarks that use basically Hello World just to test your request response or some rather small request/response sizes, because this is what most applications actually do. You can add a simple database query to it for more realistic load.

So, yes, this is more relatable to me as a backend developer because I can compare results more easily.

dylan604OP4y ago

I see the issue with your premise. I don't test web frameworks. I do real work <ducks>

I very much routinely look at large data sets. They just happen to be wrapped up in a different container than ZIP. Typically, they are delivered in MOV, MP4, WAV, etc. I look at a 10MB file and try to remember the last time I counted that small.

egberts14y ago

But you do do a minimal HTTP-free baseline benchmark for better insight of your comparison purpose of all things above?, no?

turtlebits4y ago

The test is for a web server, so you're optimizing for throughput on limited power, a static site would seem to be the best test.

If you want to test CPU load, the author should have tried Prime95 or some other similar test.

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