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As I’m a golang developer, there is a article that compare between golang and spring.

Spring Boot Native vs Go: A performance comparison

The article said “Golang is 133% faster than Spring”. They run various test to compare performance and it is clear to know the difference in performance! So, I would like to summarize that article in this post.

The test ramps up 200 users during the first minute and then keeps constantly 200 users for 2 hours. Spring native server is constructed with RESTFUL architectures.

GET /products: Returns the last 20 products.
GET /products/{id}: Returns one single product for a given Id.
POST /products: Saves a new product.

  • The load test tries to simulate a common use case. Each user will perform the following actions:
    1. Get all the latest products.
    2. Save a new product.
    3. Retrieve the product saved on step 2.

The test increments 200 users for the first minute and then maintains 200 users continuously for 2 hours.

Test Results

Response Time Results

Spring Native

SpringNativeResponseTimes

Golang

GoResponseTimes

Resource Usage Results

Spring Native

SpringPerformance

Golang

GoPerformance

To summarize this test results, Golang’s response time is 133% faster than Spring-Native’s. CPU and memory usage is also quite impressing. Golang use their memory less than 2%, while Spring Native use their memory more than 12%. Which means that the performance of Golang is better than Spring Native(although Goalgn doesn’t have Generics).

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