The main obstacle to make this happen was to trick myself into buying a Windows machine by rekindling my love for video games via a very delightful detour called the #GamePortingToolkit.
“With the increased limit of the acceptance queue, and a patched version of wrk, we can now conclude that swift is a good competitor speed-wise as a web application server.
Memory wise it blows all the other technologies away, using only 2.5% of the amount of memory that the java implementation needs, and 10% of node-js.”
@kittylyst@ratkins The backstory on this one is a bit richer than you might think. The initial benchmark raised a couple of questions which lead to a number of meaningful findings & fixes.
Do you have to deal w/ 60k requests per second? Congratulations, you made it! Everyone else is probably going to be happy about 60 (no k) requests per second. Optimise for what you have, not what you dream of. Entirely different requirements.