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Pragmatism with Flavor

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As software developers, we're technophiles, so we enjoy these cycles and quite often find humor listening to the energy spent arguing on either side of issues. Not to downplay developer happiness. The web development continuum has sound, safe, but stodgy on one side and shiny-obsession at the risk of unknown stability on the other.

Guinea 200
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Frameworks Round 2

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Last week, we posted the results of benchmarking several web application development and frameworks. We received comments, recommendations, advice, criticism, questions, and most importantly pull requests from dozens of readers and developers. Ruby 2.0.0-p0. The response was tremendous. Two Amazon EC2 m1.large Load simulator.

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Framework Benchmarks

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Netty , Vert.x , and Java servlets are fast, but we were surprised how much faster they are than Ruby , Django , and friends. and Ruby on Rails is staggering. Among the many factors to consider when choosing a web development framework, raw performance is easy to objectively measure. Ruby 2.0.0-p0. . --> Whoa! Motivation.

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Frameworks Round 1

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Netty , Vert.x , and Java servlets are fast, but we were surprised how much faster they are than Ruby , Django , and friends. and Ruby on Rails is staggering. Among the many factors to consider when choosing a web development framework, raw performance is easy to objectively measure. Ruby 2.0.0-p0. . --> Whoa! Motivation.

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