spray Blog Benchmarking spray

A few days ago the folks at techempower published round 5 of their well-received current series of web framework benchmarks, the first one in which spray participates. The techempower benchmark consist of a number of different test scenarios exercising various parts of a web framework/stack, only one of which we have supplied a spray-based implementation for: the "JSON serialization" test. The other parts of this benchmark target framework layers (like database access), which spray intentionally doesn't provide.