jdbc

• 2026-07-07
  2492, 2495, 2508

  Three frameworks, byte-identical DAOs, and the benchmark that collapsed to a rounding error.

  The Memory Benchmark · 32/41 4 min read
• 2026-07-02
  The Throughput Was Always 115

  28 mock APIs. Twelve benchmark scenarios. Two codebases. One number: 115 req/s.

  The Memory Benchmark · 19/41 7 min read
• 2026-06-30
  Designed a Reactive Benchmark. Imperative Won.

  Built a reactive benchmark with realistic latency. The imperative rewrite survived memory pressure. Reactive didn't.

  The Memory Benchmark · 18/41 5 min read
• 2026-06-20
  We Removed Reactor. Nothing Got Slower.

  We took the entire reactive stack out. R2DBC, Mono, Flux, Reactor Core, loom-carrier, flatMap with its carefully-tuned concurrency arguments. Replaced it with JDBC, HikariCP, and blocking method calls. Same endpoints. Same Netty HTTP server. Same PostgreSQL. …

  The Memory Benchmark · 14/41 5 min read