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rakyll / hey

hey

HTTP load generator, ApacheBench (ab) replacement

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8Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
20.8KGitHub stars
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HTTP load generator, ApacheBench (ab) replacement

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year8 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2017-02-01 13:37:18 UTC to 2025-01-23 21:25:19 UTC.

0122017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments20172018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20212022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC211
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC211
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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Using cluster and worker threads. The code is here, but completely undocumented, as I’ve been side tracked by a few other things[0]. I’m currently looking into porting that project to Bun, so it’s possibly dead in its current form. I was planning on turning that into a library, but Bun nerd sniped me. You need the “hey” tool to run the benchmarks[1] the way that I was running them. [0] https://github.com/chrisdavies/sql3 [1] https://github.com/rakyll/hey
In How SQLite scales read concurrency
The project is very interesting but the benchmark results must be completely wrong. On my machine, using https://github.com/rakyll/hey to test: 1 concurrent request: node.js does ~8000 req/second, go does ~9000, japronto does ~10000 10 concurrent requests: node.js does ~24000 req/second, go does ~45000, japronto does ~55000 Nowhere near a million. That's without pipelining though. Can pipelining really add SO MUCH performance? UPDATE: tried wrk with pipelining. japronto does 700000, golang 150000, node 35000. Holy shit, pipelining is epic. But the benchmark is not fair when only one server supports pipelining.
In Million requests per second with Python

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