Benchmarking Go vs Node vs Elixir 6 minute read Modified: 6 Jan, 2020 In this benchmark test, we compare three web application servers—Go, Node, and Elixir (Cowboy)—by subjecting each to a synthetic workload, first with 10k, and later with 100k connections. To simulate a generic web application client and server behavior, we have devised the following synthetic workload. The client device opens a