We ran a simple test that closely matches our use case for our API. That means receiving a request and giving a response (in our test, this is just ‘hello world’). For our purposes, this makes sense.

If you’re reading this post with a mind to what framework to choose for building a website, you’re likely doing yourself a disservice. These frameworks offers a lot more to folks building rich web applications and what those features are is likely more important than raw throughput.

We’ve tested Hapi, ExpressJS, Restify and naked Node with no middleware.

We also identified that Restify keeps connections alive which removes the overhead of creating a connection each time when getting called from the same client. To be fair, we have also tested Restify with the configuration flag of closing the connection. You’ll see a substantial decrease in throughput in that scenario for obvious reasons.

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