Nodejs vs Play for Front-End Apps

http://www.subbu.org/blog/2011/03/nodejs-vs-play-for-front-end-apps

by mcantelon • 15 years ago

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justinsb• 15 years ago

Without publishing the complete source for each test, these benchmarks are not very useful (the author does promise to publish sources for a new test in future). It appears that initially node.js was in 'development mode', so presumably the post initially showed Play beating node. With unreproducible benchmarks there are inevitably configuration errors made, or configuration tweaks that aren't applied.

andos2• 15 years ago

Yeah. And it's Java and all but I think there is something pretty odd if the mean time per request for Play is 1.5 seconds.

no7hing• 15 years ago

> I’m unable to make the source code for the test apps available publicly at this time. and > I spent nearly equal amounts of time (under two hours) to build the same app on nodejs and Play.

One actually wonders: why?

beck5• 15 years ago

That also caught my eye, I thought this is either some prolific 2 hour work or there is some sort of bias he doesn't want us to know about?

bjg• 15 years ago

It is kind of odd, but at the beginning of the article he states that he originally wrote and did the tests as part of his work at Ebay.

vmind• 15 years ago

Some truly bad graphs there, displaying response time on same axis as responses per second? Leaving in a bracket probably to contain outliers and flattening the rest of the graph?

s3u5• 15 years ago

Point well taken - there was no such intention. I updated the charts to show req/sec and mean response time separately. See http://www.subbu.org/blog/2011/03/nodejs-vs-play-for-front-e...

andos2• 15 years ago

How does the "Render - No IO" case work? Does it take a different code path? (E.g. render "No entries found" instead of iterating over each entry and rendering it?) Or, put differently, what are you measuring in the "Render - No IO" case?

ShardPhoenix• 15 years ago

Those sure are some misleading bar charts.

s3u5• 15 years ago

What's misleading about them?

Please feel free to reproduce on your own. The source is on github. See the blog post for github links.

Nodejs vs Play for Front-End Apps

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