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gofiber/fiber

⚡️ Express inspired web framework written in Go

AI dev

Stack

Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#express #expressjs #fast #fiber #flexible #framework

Updated: 2026-08-10
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2019-12-30
History: 2 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 51 open

40,053

stars

Forks: 2,021
Commits: 6,589 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

grafana/k6

A modern load testing tool, using Go and JavaScript

AI dev

Stack

Go Cobra gRPC Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#es6 #go #golang #hacktoberfest #javascript #k6

Updated: 2026-09-12
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2016-03-21
History: 6 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 802 open

31,459

stars

Forks: 1,632
Commits: 11,063 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

locustio/locust

Write scalable load tests in plain Python 🚗💨

AI dev

Stack

Python Flask pytest React Vite npm pip uv

GitHub topics

#benchmarking #http #load-generator #load-test #load-testing #load-tests

Updated: 2026-08-26
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2010-06-20
History: 11 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 3 open

28,115

stars

Forks: 3,237
Commits: 6,550 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

avajs/ava

Node.js test runner that lets you develop with confidence 🚀

Stack

JavaScript npm

GitHub topics

#assert #async #async-functions #ava #cli #cli-app

Updated: 2026-06-17
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-11-18
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 74 open

20,827

stars

Forks: 1,460
Commits: 2,090 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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aidenybai/million

Optimizing compiler for React

Stack

TypeScript Next.js React Tailwind CSS Vite npm pnpm

GitHub topics

#best-practices #blockdom #compiler #hacktoberfest #memo #million

Updated: 2026-05-20
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2021-05-29
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 2 open

17,670

stars

Forks: 596
Commits: 2,364 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

thedaviddias/Front-End-Performance-Checklist

🎮 The only Front-End Performance Checklist that runs faster than the others

Stack

npm pnpm

GitHub topics

#checklist #css #front-end-developer-tool #front-end-development #frontend #guidelines

Updated: 2025-03-23
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-07-20
History: 4 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

17,332

stars

Forks: 1,255
Commits: 224 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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infernojs/inferno

:fire: An extremely fast, React-like JavaScript library for building modern user interfaces

Stack

JavaScript npm pnpm

GitHub topics

#inferno #inferno-component #inferno-js #javascript-library #jsx #performance

Updated: 2026-08-19
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-02-02
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 40 open

16,458

stars

Forks: 640
Commits: 6,367 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

Nuitka/Nuitka

Nuitka is a Python compiler written in Python. It's fully compatible with Python 2.6, 2.7, 3.4-3.14. You feed it your Python app, it does a lot of clever things, and spits out an executable or extension module.

AI dev

Stack

Python pytest PEP 517 pip

GitHub topics

#compiler #nuitka #packaging-tool #performance #programming #python

Updated: 2026-08-22
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-08-26
History: 9 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 193 open

15,098

stars

Forks: 791
Commits: 15,196 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

trimstray/nginx-admins-handbook

How to improve NGINX performance, security, and other important things.

Stack

Shell

GitHub topics

#best-practices #cheatsheet #hacks #handbook #http #https

Updated: 2024-11-19
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-01-27
History: 4 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 6 open

14,305

stars

Forks: 1,138
Commits: 1,338 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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pinpoint-apm/pinpoint

APM, (Application Performance Management) tool for large-scale distributed systems.

AI dev

Stack

Java Spring Boot Maven

GitHub topics

#agent #apm #distributed-tracing #monitoring #performance #tracing

Updated: 2026-09-16
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-06-19
History: 6 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 545 open

13,871

stars

Forks: 3,749
Commits: 16,320 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

QwikDev/partytown

Relocate resource intensive third-party scripts off of the main thread and into a web worker. 🎉

Stack

TypeScript Next.js React Tailwind CSS Vite npm pnpm

GitHub topics

#3rd-party #3rdparty #analytics #core-web-vitals #dom #javascript

Updated: 2026-08-25
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2021-08-20
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

13,768

stars

Forks: 451
Commits: 976 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

apache/tvm

Open Machine Learning Compiler Framework

AI dev

Stack

Python Android pytest Tornado CMake Gradle Maven

GitHub topics

#compiler #deep-learning #gpu #javascript #machine-learning #metal

Updated: 2026-09-06
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-10-12
History: 7 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 244 open

13,720

stars

Forks: 3,964
Commits: 14,284 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

grafana/pyroscope

Continuous Profiling Platform. Debug performance issues down to a single line of code

AI dev

Stack

Go Django Django REST Framework Express FastAPI Bundler Cargo .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#continuous-profiling #developer-tools #devops #find-bottlenecks #golang #hacktoberfest

Updated: 2026-08-07
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-12-03
History: 5 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 395 open

11,616

stars

Forks: 786
Commits: 5,805 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

cython/cython

The most widely used Python to C compiler

Stack

Cython PEP 517 pip

GitHub topics

#big-data #c #cpp #cpython #cpython-extensions #cython

Updated: 2026-08-28
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2006-10-20
History: 10 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 1,519 open

10,836

stars

Forks: 1,619
Commits: 20,642 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

apache/jmeter

Apache JMeter open-source load testing tool for analyzing and measuring the performance of a variety of services

AI dev

Stack

Java Gradle npm Yarn

GitHub topics

#java #performance #test

Updated: 2026-07-20
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 1998-09-03
History: 4 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 963 open

9,505

stars

Forks: 2,287
Commits: 18,550 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

joerick/pyinstrument

🚴 Call stack profiler for Python. Shows you why your code is slow!

Stack

Python Django pytest Svelte Vite npm PEP 517 pip

GitHub topics

#async #django #performance #profile #profiler #python

Updated: 2026-08-04
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2014-03-13
History: 7 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 26 open

8,001

stars

Forks: 298
Commits: 1,267 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

codesenberg/bombardier

Fast cross-platform HTTP benchmarking tool written in Go

Stack

Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#benchmarking #bombardier #cli #fast #go #golang

Updated: 2026-08-25
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2016-05-29
History: 4 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 28 open

6,829

stars

Forks: 330
Commits: 118 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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halide/Halide

a language for fast, portable data-parallel computation

AI dev

Stack

C++ Android pytest CMake Gradle pip

GitHub topics

#compiler #dsl #gpu #halide #hexagon #image-processing

Updated: 2026-09-02
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-08-17
History: 7 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 777 open

6,595

stars

Forks: 1,106
Commits: 23,791 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

leandromoreira/linux-network-performance-parameters

Learn where some of the network sysctl variables fit into the Linux/Kernel network flow. Translations: 🇷🇺

GitHub topics

#kernel #linux #network #performance #sysctl #tcp

Updated: 2026-06-03
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-05-22
History: 4 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 3 open

5,814

stars

Forks: 529
Commits: 68 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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aimeos/aimeos

Integrated online shop based on Laravel and the Aimeos e-commerce framework for ultra-fast online shops, scalable marketplaces, complex B2B applications and #gigacommerce

Stack

JavaScript Laravel Tailwind CSS Vite Composer npm

GitHub topics

#aimeos #b2b #cart #e-commerce #e-commerce-platform #ecommerce

Updated: 2026-07-29
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-09-10
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 1 open

5,449

stars

Forks: 329
Commits: 362 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

fuse-box/fuse-box

A blazing fast js bundler/loader with a comprehensive API :fire:

Archived

Stack

JavaScript Angular Electron Express React npm

GitHub topics

#bundler #hmr #hot-reload #javascript #loader #performance

Updated: 2022-12-01
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-10-28
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 46 open

3,967

stars

Forks: 229
Commits: 3,687 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

jruby/jruby

JRuby, an implementation of Ruby on the JVM

Stack

Ruby Sinatra Bundler Cargo Maven

GitHub topics

#concurrency #invokedynamic #jruby #jvm #performance #ruby

Updated: 2026-08-17
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2001-09-10
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 959 open

3,913

stars

Forks: 946
Commits: 57,078 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

LinShunKang/MyPerf4J

High performance Java APM. Powered by ASM. Try it. Test it. If you feel its better, use it.

Stack

Java Maven

GitHub topics

#agent #apm #bytecode #diagnosis #java-agent #jvm-monitor

Updated: 2026-07-31
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-03-11
History: 6 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 5 open

3,565

stars

Forks: 554
Commits: 416 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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modelscope/evalscope

A streamlined and customizable framework for efficient large model (LLM, VLM, AIGC) evaluation and performance benchmarking.

AI dev

Stack

Python FastAPI Flask LangChain pytest npm PEP 517 pip

GitHub topics

#evaluation #llm #performance #rag #vlm

Updated: 2026-09-09
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2023-12-07
History: 8 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 39 open

3,395

stars

Forks: 478
Commits: 1,027 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

bombomby/optick

C++ Profiler For Games

Stack

C# CMake .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #games #performance #profiler

Updated: 2024-05-25
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-01-17
History: 4 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 85 open

3,161

stars

Forks: 310
Commits: 573 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

rails/bootsnap

Boot large Ruby/Rails apps faster

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#computers #gem #performance #ruby

Updated: 2026-08-14
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2017-01-18
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 5 open

2,740

stars

Forks: 209
Commits: 838 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

alexfernandez/loadtest

Runs a load test on the selected URL. Fast and easy to use. Can be integrated in your own workflow using the API.

Stack

JavaScript npm

GitHub topics

#loadtesting #nodejs #performance #testing-tools

Updated: 2026-01-13
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-06-21
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

2,630

stars

Forks: 212
Commits: 636 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

evanwashere/mitata

benchmark tooling that loves you ❤️

Stack

JavaScript npm

GitHub topics

#benchmark #bun #cpp #deno #graaljs #javascript

Updated: 2025-02-17
Lists: 0 list mentions
First commit: 2022-04-17
History: 43 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 15 open

2,514

stars

Forks: 37
Commits: 73 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

fcsonline/drill

Drill is an HTTP load testing application written in Rust

Stack

Rust Express Cargo npm

GitHub topics

#http #jmeter #performance #performance-testing #rust #tester

Updated: 2026-07-29
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2017-05-18
History: 4 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 38 open

2,304

stars

Forks: 117
Commits: 324 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

Icinga/icinga2

The core of our monitoring platform with a powerful configuration language and REST API.

Stack

C++ CMake .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#cluster #distributed-monitoring #elastic #graphite #graylog #icinga

Updated: 2026-09-02
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-03-28
History: 7 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 493 open

2,235

stars

Forks: 617
Commits: 14,921 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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