Question on benchmark results about fast_jsonapi HOT 7 CLOSED

Out of curiosity, do you know how this compares with jsonapi-rb (http://jsonapi-rb.org)? We've started migrating from AMS to jsonapi-rb due to the performance improvements it gives. I'd be interested in how this compares also.

Thanks!

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@grossadamm first of all thanks for your replay. To be clear I'm not trying to troll you guys nor I'm a defender of AMS preaching it to be the silver bullet. On the contrary I think AWS is a major bottleneck in many APIs thats why I'm interested to understand what exactly makes fast_jsonapi more performant than AMS.

Apart from the possiblity in AMS to set different adapters which apparently have a variable impact on the performance of the serializiation what makes fast_jsonapi still ~10x-15x faster?

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It is entirely possible that AMS may be faster at serializing other formats, but we are focused on serializing to the jsonapi spec. It is also entirely possible that you don't want or need the jsonapi spec and that AMS is the better choice for you. That's ok :).

This gem does not attempt to compete with AMS on the ability to output into multiple different formats or on the amount of customizability.

Does that help explain the benchmarks better?

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@andypike I think that's definitely worth comparing and benchmarking against!

@pplant No offense taken at all :). In fact, it's these kind of discussions that I personally believe add the most value to the community. Asking why is incredibly important and could even lead to a better solution. To that end, I'm going to actually ask @shishirmk or @sriniwasgr to step in as they did most of the deep digging into why AMS was slower than what we wanted.

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We are putting together a longer writeup, but in a nutshell, the gains were mostly found by focusing just on JSON API and homogenous lists.

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@pplant Here is the link to the performance doc. Hopefully it helps in answering your question.

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Thanks! Awesome write up. Think we can close this issue unless somebody else has further questions.

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