Newly released Deno 1.9 promises “Rust-like” performance, still outrun by Node.js — There is no incentive swapping to Deno, especially not from Node.js. Node.js has history and is not exactly a performance beast on its own, but it does have strong support for native add-ons. These can seamlessly augment and boost Node.js to heights way above what is possible with Deno. Above…

A 12x performance boost to Node.js — I recently hooked up my Raspberry Pi 4 to my TV and because I hadn’t benchmarked something in a while I decided to see if I could serve 100k HTTP req/sec from this little thing, over an actual Ethernet cable. I began by installing Ubuntu Server 20.10 …

A technical explanation for those interested in the gory details — Imagine being a paperboy, tasked with delivering letters to a set of houses by car. Would you drive around all houses, delivering one letter at every stop, going round all houses many times until you have no more letters to deliver? …

Newly released Deno 1.0 does not make any sense to me — 10 years ago we saw both Node.js and Golang release for the first time. Node.js was adopted at a rapid rate by scripters fed up with the old PHP/Apache set-up. Golang had a slower start to its adoption, opting for a co-routine design from the very start, probably discouraging unfamiliar…

Live updates don't have to be very expensive — WebSockets are everywhere on the modern web. They deliver live financial updates, betting, social feeds, chat, collaborative editing, gaming, notifications and pretty much everything that is not a client-initiated request. If something updates on its own, chances are you stumbled upon a WebSocket. …

Forking an open source project is one of the core rights given to every developer. If enough competence, money and vision agree to fork a project turned sour, it can rearrange the power structure for the better. …

You don’t need decade-old hacks & quirks to build real-time apps. — µWebSockets.js is an open source WebSocket server developed since early 2016. It implements standard WebSockets — something today’s web browsers all support without polyfill or helpers. They are standard, simply put. Since inception, µWebSockets.js has established the reputation of being very optimized and fast, lean and stable. …