Benchmarking the request throughput of conventional API calls and gRPC

By @jonaro00 and @Danielmebrahtu

Bachelor's degree project in Computer Science at KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Read the thesis: https://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-334990

Project Details

The project consists of six servers and one client, implemented in three different programming languages: Java, Python, and Rust. The servers provide the same API using both REST (with JSON) and gRPC protocols

Server Details

REST API Servers

• Java server using Spring framework
• Python server using FastAPI
• Rust server using Axum

gRPC Servers

• Java server using official gRPC library
• Python server using official grpcio library
• Rust server using Tonic

Client Details

• The client program is implemented in Rust and serves the purpose of spamming requests to the servers while counting the number of completed requests per second.
• The client runs tests against one server at a time and can request four different payload sizes.