Python v. Rust Webservers

Tiny experiment to compare two web frameworks: Python FastAPI and Rust actix-web.

docker compose up --build -d

Send request to Rust actix-web server

curl http://localhost:8080/rust-adam

"Hello rust-adam!

Send request to python FastAPI server:

curl http://localhost:8081/python-adam

"Hello python-adam!

Send request to Rust rwf server:

curl http://localhost:8082/

<h1>Hey Rwf!</h1>

Send request to Rust rwf server:

curl http://localhost:8083/

Hello, Robyn world!

Memory usage

docker stats --no-stream --format "table {{.Name}}\t{{.MemUsage}}"

NAME                             MEM USAGE / LIMIT
python-v-rust-rust-rwf-1         4.121MiB / 15.54GiB
python-v-rust-python-robyn-1     50.09MiB / 15.54GiB
python-v-rust-python-fastapi-1   46.66MiB / 15.54GiB
python-v-rust-rust-actix-web-1   1.078MiB / 15.54GiB