http://matthewfawcett.co.uk en-us 40 <p>Today I decided to have a look at <a href="http://nodejs.org/">Node.js</a>. I have heard quite a lot about it but have avoided looking at it for a while. Node.js provides a way of building server side network programs, written in Javascript. I took a look at a tutorial over at <a href="http://simonwillison.net/2009/Nov/23/node/">http://simonwillison.net/2009/Nov/23/node/</a> for installing Node and building a simple Hello World web service. I ran an apache benchmark test and was suprised with the results. I managed to get 6075 requests per second on my Macbook Pro!</p> <p>To compare it with something that I'm used to, I wrote the same Hello World script service Sinatra and served it up using the thin webserver, which gave me 1606 requests per second which is quite a difference.</p> <p>The 2 scripts and apache benchmark outputs are below:</p> <script src="http://gist.github.com/309322.js"></script> Fri, 19 Feb 2010 22:47:00 +0000 urn:uuid:c59ed839-e749-418b-ac71-a1a213773546 http://matthewfawcett.co.uk/2010/02/19/playing-with-node-js#comments node.js sinatra http://matthewfawcett.co.uk/2010/02/19/playing-with-node-js