10 things I learned making the fastest JS server runtime in the world
summary
Claim: a new JavaScript server runtime called ES4X runtime replaces V8 with GraalVM and swaps Node bindings for lighter native IO and results land near the top of benchmarks. Tools used: GraalVM, Vertx, npm modules, Tech and Power framework and Chrome DevTools for profiling. Numbers: a jump from ~89th to top 5 and measured 2–6× throughput and latency improvements across JSON, single and multiple DB queries, and updates; the implementation proves the approach works.
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chapters (20)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:34JavaScript fast
- 1:23Why is it so fast
- 2:26Do we trust the internet
- 5:28Rate errors and latency
- 6:15Server application definition
- 7:28Benchmarks
- 8:44TechPowerFrameworks
- 9:53FrameworkWorks
- 12:45Benchmark
- 13:30Flame graphs
- 14:45Optimization
- 15:39Other engines
- 17:40Broad GS goals
- 18:07Academic research
- 18:46Hypothesis
- 19:50Implementation
- 23:23Optimized
- 24:33Comparison
- 25:39Neverending job
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