Sunsetting the Techempower Framework Benchmarks
33 points by nbrady 6 hours ago | 5 comments
  • mseepgood 5 hours ago |
    This text lacks information about why it is being sunset.
  • WatchDog 4 hours ago |
    I really liked these benchmarks, and would check in with them from time to time.

    No benchmark is perfect, but these ones cover such a wide variety of different languages and frameworks, it's a good resource for getting a rough idea of the kind of performance that a given stack is capable of.

    I don't know much about TechEmpower the company, it seems to be a small consultancy, maintaining this project probably takes non insignificant resources from them.

    The end of the project seems kind of unceremonious, but they don't owe anything to anyone.

    Hopefully an active fork emerges.

    • silisili 3 hours ago |
      It's cool in a 'how much can you tune it' kind of way, but has little practical value. Most sites would be tickled with a 4 digit requests per second number, so does it matter if your chosen framework does 50k/sec or 3 million/sec? Not really.

      I think the biggest problem was it just had too many entries, most of which seem tuned to cheating benchmarks. Would probably be more valuable just choosing the top 3 by popularity from the top 15 languages or so.

  • narrator 2 hours ago |
    Engineering has kind of moved on in a weird way from web frameworks. Now AI just writes document.getElementById('longVariableName') javascript and straight SQL without complaining at all. The abstraction isn't as important as it used to be because AI doesn't mind typing.
  • GrooveSAN 2 hours ago |
    Would you know any alternative?