Performance

The performance of Panko is measured using microbenchmarks and load testing.

Microbenchmarks

The following microbenchmarks are run on MacBook Pro (16-inch, 2021, M1 Max), Ruby 3.2.0 with Rails 7.0.5 demonstrating the performance of ActiveModelSerializers 0.10.13 and Panko 0.8.0.

Benchmark AMS ip/s Panko ip/s
Simple_Posts_2300 11.72 523.05
Simple_Posts_50 557.29 23,011.9
HasOne_Posts_2300 5.91 233.44
HasOne_Posts_50 285.8 10,362.79

Real-world benchmark

The real-world benchmark here is an endpoint which serializes 7,884 entries with 48 attributes and no associations. The benchmark took place in an environment that simulates production environment and run using wrk from machine on the same cluster.

Metric AMS Panko
Avg Response Time 4.89s 1.48s
Max Response Time 5.42s 1.83s
99th Response Time 5.42s 1.74s
Total Requests 61 202

Thanks to Bringg for providing the infrastructure for the benchmarks.



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