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Performance (Gin)

Coming Soon — Alternative HTTP engine support is not yet implemented.

This section will cover performance optimization and alternative HTTP engines for Nika.

Current Engine

Nika is built on Gin, which is already one of the fastest HTTP frameworks in Go:

BenchmarkGin          30000   48265 ns/op   0 B/op   0 allocs/op

Future Engines

Engine Status Description
Gin ✅ Current Default HTTP engine
Fiber ⏳ Planned Express-like API, fasthttp-based
Chi ⏳ Planned Lightweight, composable router
Echo ⏳ Planned Minimalist framework
net/http ⏳ Planned Go standard library

Current Optimizations

Disable Debug Mode

import "github.com/gin-gonic/gin"

func main() {
    gin.SetMode(gin.ReleaseMode)
    app := nika.NewApp()
    // ...
}

Enable Gzip Compression

import "github.com/gin-contrib/gzip"

app.Use(gzip.Gzip(gzip.DefaultCompression))

Performance Tips

  1. Use connection pooling for database and cache connections
  2. Minimize allocations in hot paths
  3. Use streaming for large responses
  4. Enable Keep-Alive connections
  5. Use context timeouts for external calls

Status

Feature Status
Gin engine ✅ Implemented
Engine abstraction layer ⏳ Planned
Fiber adapter ⏳ Planned
Performance benchmarks ⏳ Planned