The original title is "Benchmarking Bun and Node for a High-Traffic Video Metadata API"

Short summary

A real-world benchmark comparing Bun 1.2 and Node 22 for a high-traffic video metadata API handling 9,000 req/s across Asia-Pacific. The author shares identical handler code run on both runtimes using native SQLite bindings, measuring actual workload (DB lookup, JSON parse/merge, CPU formatting) rather than hello-world loops. Includes honest results where Bun lost, plus architectural rationale for extracting a hot endpoint from a PHP/LiteSpeed stack.

• •Bun 1.2 vs Node 22 benchmarked on a real 9,000 req/s metadata API, not a hello-world loop
• •Identical handler code run on both runtimes with native SQLite bindings for fair comparison
• •Author shares where Bun lost and architectural reasoning for micro-runtime extraction from PHP stack

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