Go vs. Node.js (AWS Lambda) performance benchmark (2023)

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I think this experimentation demonstrate how fast nodejs platform vs golang binary gets executed in lambda, or may be how fast the corresponding runtime gets loaded; because, both downloading file and saving to DB is IO operation.

To be fair, you also need to add some comparison of CPU load, say math, data processing, etc ops performance comparison as well to get he full picture.

guys you need to take care that Nodejs scales better on cloud functions then go lang! Go lang has much longer cold start then nodejs. We run 20k req/s and nodejs was cheaper at the end

Great aws lambda performance research. Would interesting to compare just calculation perfprmance

Why exactly is Go faster here? Because I know that NodeJS is actually significantly faster at some types of code (due to JIT).

Total time's where within a second of each other though?

Had been learning express JS and i still don't want to say this but , Go rocks !

Better to test Bun or Deno against Golang as Node is inferior in the JS world now.

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@Anton Putra could you do a Go vs c# aws Lambda ?

GraalVM?

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Could you please test java and PHP also?

Thanks, cool comparison. But I would compare 99 percentile. And the difference a bit less - 22%. Sure that Go is much faster, but a lot of time both routines are slowed by IO operations

Nice video. Given the intro, I was hoping this video would actually run these for a while and compare the real AWS costs of each. Then end the video with how much money/day is actually saved

It seems that you are using the full aws sdk for node js which is like a 75 mbs library. This can be tried by using the latest aws sdk which allows using only the packages for S3 and Dynamodb. Although, I am not fully sure if reducing this size will have a as great impact on the performance since the lambda containers will be reused for many requests.

One video on Node vs C#.

Please php vs nodejs

Do more such comparison videos with Node and Go with different use cases
Much appreciated

Thanks, please compare rust and go

I think what go is a waste of time, i prefer learn Rust instead, more performance, same ugly sintax and more use cases. No one will save my time for me

The Go code would have been much faster if you would have implemented the downloadImage function as a gorutine. Correct me if I am wrong thou.

What about Java Quarkus ?

var?!

I know that majority of people never considered C# as a real competitor for nodejs/go/python in lambdas but I have to say that today it worth to try. In .Net 6 there is ahead of time compilation and it helps to solve cold start issue. According to the my test it is on the same level as nodejs with 2Gb of RAM. But C# project is much easier to develop and support in the long terms.

Great video!! So real!!

Not by a wide margin, considering go is compiled.

Straight to the point! Thank you!!

Go is a great language for back end

Good comparison video! Just wondered, Is there any reason to change regacy node app to go language application??

Does this also reflect cold start time?

In AWS lambda downloads you

Test Bun vs Go... :-)

Would be interesting to test with the modular v3 node sdk, should reduce startup by a bit.

Quick and to the point! Thanks!

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Nice video Anton! Do you think AWS Lambda runtime has a big impact here? I mean, would we be able to infer this results doing the same benchmarks locally?

Thank you, Anton. Is there any chance to add python for comparison?