Why reactive application?

Application requirements have changed dramatically in recent years. Only a few years ago a large application had tens of servers, seconds of response time, hours of offline maintenance and gigabytes of data. Today applications are deployed on everything from mobile devices to cloud-based clusters running thousands of multi-core processors. Users expect millisecond response times and […]

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PIMF vs. Silex

This performance comparison was done by TechEmpower, Inc. CA. They made the benchmark of many web application frameworks executing fundamental tasks such as JSON serialization, database access, and server-side template composition. Each framework is operating in a realistic production configuration. Results are captured on physical hardware. The test implementations are largely community-contributed and all source […]

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