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Comment by mmariani | Hacker News Reader

I would only take seriously tests like this if my apps consisted of displaying "Hello World" to paying customers. So far I couldn't find a business model to monetize this type of application.

As a result, I find these tests to be meaningless no matter how pretty the graphs are.

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It is customary to reply to any benchmark game involving libraries and framework with "it's too simple; it's meaningless".

But would it be meaningless if you tried to gauge the differences in bandwidth and latency of two datacenters (e.g. provided by the same company) ?

Would it be meaningless if you tried to gauge the effect of a dumb vs. an intelligent routing mesh ?

Maybe it is meaningless, but you don't have the data to back that claim. At least the post provided the code so you can try for yourself.

By keeping the test apps simple, we limit the app code's effect on the results, and show the overhead of the providers' infrastructure.

You're welcome to fork https://github.com/shellycloud/baseline-performance and provide a better test.

No thank you, I have other work to do now. That reminds me I have to drop HN and get back to work. So excuse my short reply.

An even better way to test your platform would be to offer future customers free accounts with reasonable limits to test their applications with real data and load. I realize you offer 20€ for free, but that doesn't cover a real test.

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