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Performance Benchmark: Goma Gateway vs Traefik
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Performance Benchmark: Goma Gateway vs Traefik
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/jkaninda/goma-gateway-vs-traefik
- Owner: jkaninda
- Created: 2025-07-16T03:42:47.000Z (3 months ago)
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- Last Pushed: 2025-07-16T06:03:05.000Z (3 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-07-17T06:32:50.576Z (3 months ago)
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# 🚀 Performance Benchmark: Traefik vs Goma Gateway
This benchmark compares **Traefik** and **Goma Gateway** under identical load conditions using [`wrk`](https://github.com/wg/wrk), a modern HTTP benchmarking tool.
```bash
wrk -t8 -c500 -d60s http://localhost/api/books
```
> **Test environment:** 8 threads, 500 concurrent connections, 60 seconds duration
---
## 📊 Summary
| **Metric** | **Traefik** | **Goma Gateway** |
| ----------------------- | ------------ | ---------------- |
| **Requests/sec** | 🟢 29,278.35 | 23,108.16 |
| **Avg Latency** | 81.58 ms | 🟢 **71.92 ms** |
| **Latency StdDev** | 143.85 ms | 🟢 **120.47 ms** |
| **Max Latency** | 🟢 1.54 s | 1.82 s |
| **Total Requests** | 🟢 1,757,995 | 1,388,634 |
| **Timeouts** | 74 | 🟢 **18** |
| **Transfer/sec** | 6.42 MB | 🟢 **6.81 MB** |
| **Memory (Idle)** | \~76 MB | 🟢 **\~5 MB** |
| **Memory (Under Load)** | \~250 MB | 🟢 **\~50 MB** |
---
## 🧠 Analysis
### ✅ Traefik Highlights
* High throughput: \~29K RPS and \~1.75M total requests.
### ✅ Goma Gateway Highlights
* 12% lower average latency and more consistent performance.
* 76% fewer timeouts under the same load.
* 5x smaller memory footprint
* Higher per-request transfer efficiency.
---
## ⚙️ Throughput vs Stability
| Feature | Traefik | Goma Gateway |
| ------------- | ------------- | ------------------ |
| 🚦 Throughput | 🟢 High | Moderate |
| ⏱️ Latency | Moderate | 🟢 Lower |
| 📉 Stability | Higher jitter | 🟢 More consistent |
| ⛔ Timeouts | Higher | 🟢 Fewer |
| 🧠 Memory | 76–250 MB | 🟢 5–50 MB |
## Screenshot
---
## 🧪 Reproducing the Test
### ✅ Requirements
* Docker
### 🛠️ Setup: `docker-compose`
Create a file named `compose.yaml`:
```yaml
services:
okapi-example:
image: jkaninda/okapi-example
container_name: okapi-example
labels:
- traefik.enable=true
- traefik.http.routers.okapi-example.rule=Host(`okapi-example.jkaninda.dev`) || Host(`localhost`)
- traefik.http.routers.okapi-example.entrypoints=web
- traefik.http.services.okapi-example.loadbalancer.server.port=8080
restart: always
ports:
- 8080:8080
networks:
- default
gateway:
image: jkaninda/goma-gateway:0.3.3
container_name: gateway
command: server
restart: always
volumes:
- ./goma.yml:/etc/goma/goma.yml:ro
ports:
- 80:80
- 443:443
networks:
- default
traefik:
image: traefik:v3.3.4
container_name: traefik
restart: always
volumes:
- /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock:ro
- ./traefik.yml:/traefik.yml:ro
ports:
- 80:80
- 443:443
networks:
- default
```
---
### 🔧 Configuration Files
#### `goma.yml` (Goma Gateway)
```yaml
gateway:
log:
level: error
entryPoints:
web:
address: ":80"
webSecure:
address: ":443"
networking:
transport:
insecureSkipVerify: true
routes:
- name: okapi-example
path: /
hosts:
- localhost
target: http://okapi-example:8080
```
#### `traefik.yml` (Traefik)
```yaml
log:
level: ERROR
providers:
docker:
exposedByDefault: false
api:
dashboard: true # Disable if not needed
insecure: true
entryPoints:
web:
address: ":80"
websecure:
address: ":443"
serversTransport:
insecureSkipVerify: true
```
---
## 🚦 Running the Tests
### 🟢 Goma Gateway
Start the gateway and backend:
```sh
docker compose up -d gateway okapi-example
```
Check readiness:
```sh
curl http://localhost/api/books
```
Run the performance test:
```sh
echo "GOMA GATEWAY"
wrk -t8 -c500 -d60s http://localhost/api/books
```
---
### 🔁 Switch to Traefik
Stop Goma Gateway:
```sh
docker stop gateway okapi-example && docker rm gateway okapi-example
```
Start Traefik and backend:
```sh
docker compose up -d traefik okapi-example --force-recreate
```
Check readiness:
```sh
curl http://localhost/api/books
```
Run the test:
```sh
echo "TRAEFIK"
wrk -t8 -c500 -d60s http://localhost/api/books
```
> 💡 You can substitute `okapi-example` with any backend to run your own tests.
### Clean
```sh
docker compose down
```
---
## 🔗 Useful Links
* 🔧 **Goma Gateway**: [github.com/jkaninda/goma-gateway](https://github.com/jkaninda/goma-gateway)
* 📚 **Okapi Example**: [github.com/jkaninda/okapi-example](https://github.com/jkaninda/okapi-example)