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Faster performance

Centrifugo PRO has performance improvements for several server parts. These improvements can help to reduce tail end-to-end latencies in the application, increase server throughput and/or reduce CPU usage on server machines. Our open-source version has a decent performance by itself, with PRO improvements Cenrifugo steps even further.

Faster HTTP API​

Centrifugo PRO has an optimized JSON serialization/deserialization for HTTP API.

The effect can be noticeable under load. The exact numbers heavily depend on usage scenario. According to our benchmarks you can expect 10-15% more requests/sec for small message publications over HTTP API, and up to several times throughput boost when you are frequently get lots of messages from a history, see a couple of examples below.

Faster GRPC API​

Centrifugo PRO has an optimized Protobuf serialization/deserialization for GRPC API. The effect can be noticeable under load. The exact numbers heavily depend on usage scenario.

Faster HTTP proxy​

Centrifugo PRO has an optimized JSON serialization/deserialization for HTTP proxy. The effect can be noticeable under load. The exact numbers heavily depend on usage scenario.

Faster GRPC proxy​

Centrifugo PRO has an optimized Protobuf serialization/deserialization for GRPC API. The effect can be noticeable under load. The exact numbers heavily depend on usage scenario.

Faster JWT decoding​

Centrifugo PRO has an optimized decoding of JWT claims.

Faster GRPC unidirectional stream​

Centrifugo PRO has an optimized Protobuf deserialization for GRPC unidirectional stream. This only affects deserialization of initial connect command.

Examples​

Let's look at quick live comparisons of Centrifugo OSS and Centrifugo PRO regarding HTTP API performance.

Publish HTTP API​

In this video you can see a 13% speed up for publish operation. But for more complex API calls with larger payloads the difference can be much bigger. See next example that demonstrates this.

History HTTP API​

In this video you can see an almost 2x overall speed up while asking 100 messages from Centrifugo history API.