The backend has been developed using ruby. A solid choice back in 2015. But time and work on related projects has shown that a switch to node would be worthwhile decision. Both, in terms of performance as well as in terms of maintanence when paired with type-safe code via typescript.
This release marks the first step and should hopefully be a notable one already. All data fetching requests now run over the new node backend. Benchmarks in our staging environment have shown that the maximum number of requests per second went up from ~20 to ~200. While we’re still not near this kind of load yet, benchmarks have also shown that median latency went down from ~70ms to ~30ms. This should be enough of an improvement to have a perceivable effect on Codecks’ responsiveness when loading new data.
Creating and changing data still runs through the old ruby-based system. The corresponding endpoints will be migrated piece by piece as the respective parts of the code base are being worked on in the upcoming months.
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