Re: aws vs ruby rails or php? how much faster?

[johannes falcone <visphatesjava@gmail.com>]

On Monday, April 22, 2013 11:18:12 PM UTC-7, Thomas Løcke wrote:
> On 04/22/2013 11:17 PM, Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57) wrote:
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> > What kind of request was tested with this benchmark? Was this static
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> > content delivery? Dynamic content? If this was dynamic content, then how
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> > was it defined, as there is no way to have a PHP reference file
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> > implemented in Ada (too much different)?
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> > That's not a surprise to me well designed Ada outperformed PHP and Ruby,
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> > but I still would like more details.
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> It was an in-house test we did to figure out how different frameworks
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> performed. We tested both templating systems and purely static content.
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> The differences were massive. Compared to Ruby, PHP and Python, AWS was
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> so much faster, that testing it hardly made any sense.
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> We didn't go out of our way to optimize anything. All frameworks were
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> running in out of the box mode. The assumption was that a decent
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> framework should be able to perform without forcing the user to learn
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> about all sorts of arcane tricks to make it go faster. Also we assumed
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> that X amount of time used to optimize a framework would result in
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> fairly similar performance gains across the board.
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> What we did not do was test things that relied on the performance of
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> external systems, such as databases. We focused very narrowly on the
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> straight-up performance of serving simple static and templated content
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> over plain HTTP. This was mostly a benchmark of the frameworks ability
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> to handle huge loads of HTTP requests.
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> A few years ago I did a test[1] against node.js, mainly to prove that
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> the threading model of AWS was not as inferior to the event model of
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> node.js as many claimed. That test was equally simple and
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> un-scientific, but it did get the point across. Please note that this
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> test is very old and that node.js has since surpassed AWS. It still
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> stands though that using a threaded webserver does not necessarily
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> equal slow performance.
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> It would be interesting to do some of these tests in a more controlled
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> manner, and in an open forum where it is known what and how tests are
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> done. Also we could learn more about AWS, and perhaps take a look at
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> how we can make it go even faster. :o)
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> [1] http://wiki.ada-dk.org/aws_vs_node.js
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> Thomas Løcke | thomas@12boo.net | http://12boo.net

If node.js is faster then why doesn't everyone use node.js?
In a nutshell is javascript enough to program a dynamic website?
What do you think of aolserver or naviserver vs aws?