The Hidden Performance Cost of NodeJS and GraphQL

NodeJS and GraphQL are popular technologies for building web applications, but in my experience, they come with certain scaling and performance tradeoffs to be aware of. tl;dr: GraphQL's modular structure generally leads to code that instantiates excessive promises, which degrades request performance. Benchmarks show a 2-3x latency increase. Thanks for reading Software at Scale! Subscribe for free

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GraphQLでresolverの処理が増えるほどパフォーマンスが悪くなった原因を調査した記事。 resolver内でPromiseの多用と`async_hooks`の利用がオーバーヘッドと関連しているという話。

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