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Platformatic Blog
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Platformatic Blog is the company blog at blog.platformatic.dev, writing about programming and web. Since 2022, 30 different Hacker News readers have linked it 104 times, most often “93% Faster Next.js in (Your) Kubernetes”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-20, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (7) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers cite Platformatic's posts on Node.js and Undici fetch internals, Bun versus Node latency, and React server-side rendering performance as supporting evidence in performance debates.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 7 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- 93% Faster Next.js in (Your) Kubernetes3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-11-25
- Node.js Is Here to Stay3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-06-12
- Building a Micro Htmx SSR Framework3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-03-21
- An SSR Performance Showdown2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2024-09-04
- Bun Is Fast, Until Latency Matters for Next.js Workloads2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-01-19
- Destino: Doom in Your Terminal with Node.js2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-05-21
- Fastify v5 Is Here2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-09-18
- Platformatic Composition2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-06-01
- HTTP Fundamentals: Understanding Undici and Its Working Mechanism2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-04-23
- Why Node.js needs a virtual file system2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-03-17
What Hacker News says?
Matteo Collina says that the node fetch under the hood is the fetch from the undici node client [0]; and that also, because it needs to generate WHATWG web streams, it is inherently slower than the alternative — undici request [1]. [0] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIyiDDts0lo [1] - https://blog.platformatic.dev/http-fundamentals-understandin...
Comment linking /http-fundamentals-understanding-undici-and-its-working-mechanism
on “Modern Node.js Patterns”Submitted Node.js Is Here to Stay as a story · 27 points
HN discussionIndeed, the Platformatic folks announced just that last week: https://blog.platformatic.dev/laravel-nodejs-php-in-watt-run...
Comment linking /laravel-nodejs-php-in-watt-runtime
on “URL-Driven State in HTMX”Submitted Next-Generation Flamegraph Visualization for Node.js as a story · 17 points
HN discussion> Discover why this isn't a step backward but a leap forward in building powerful, efficient web applications. There are certainly reasons to use JS on the server but efficiency is definitely not a big one. Even less when using React which is probably the slowest of the modern framework/libs doing SSR. https://blog.platformatic.dev/ssr-performance-showdown
Comment linking /ssr-performance-showdown
on “React on the server is not PHP”Submitted Why Node.js needs a virtual file system as a story · 14 points
HN discussionfwiw, the opposite view was recently taken for node js. GH hides most of the conversation by default due to size, but the gist is that a new VFS feature is being proposed for node that was largely written using an LLM. I think I've more often seen the view these days that if you used, steered, and likely modified code generated by an AI, you generated the code and hold the copyright. https://github.com/nodejs/node/p…
Comment linking /why-nodejs-needs-a-virtual-file-system
on “Flash-Moe: Running a 397B Parameter Model on a Mac with 48GB RAM”Submitted An SSR Performance Showdown as a story · 5 points
HN discussionCriticism noted! But it is experimental, unconstrained FFI is inherently unsafe, and not all JavaScript developers are "mildly educated web devs". I doubt we'll see this go into mainstream dependencies likely to be used by such developers – it hasn't in Ruby which has had easily accessible FFI mechanisms for years. Though, there is already a fun experiment using it: https://blog.platformatic.dev/destino-doom-termina…
Comment linking /destino-doom-terminal-nodejs-ffi
on “Node.js 26.0.0 (Now with Temporal)”Submitted PHP Meets Node at Scale as a story · 4 points
HN discussionNo, Node.js is faster in real workload. https://blog.platformatic.dev/bun-is-fast-until-latency-matt...
Comment linking /bun-is-fast-until-latency-matters-for-nextjs-workloads
on “Node.js 26.0.0 (Now with Temporal)”Submitted HTTP Fundamentals: Understanding Undici and Its Working Mechanism as a story · 4 points
HN discussionhttps://blog.platformatic.dev/bun-is-fast-until-latency-matt... The latency seems to be very poor about complex applications like Next.js.
Comment linking /bun-is-fast-until-latency-matters-for-nextjs-workloads
on “Bun vs. Node.js Performance: Why Your Event Loop Is the Real Bottleneck”Submitted 93% Faster Next.js in (Your) Kubernetes as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fastify v5 Is Here as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Node.js Is Here to Stay as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted 93% Faster Next.js in (Your) Kubernetes as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted From Curl Commands to Type-Safe API Clients: A Complete Workflow as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Heap Profiling Support in platformatic/flame and Watt as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Renewing Our Open Source Pledge for 2025 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Stop Burning Money on Performance Firefighting as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Seamlessly Blend PHP with Node.js as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Seamlessly Blend PHP with Node.js as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Platformatic Joins the Open Source Pledge as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted An SSR Performance Showdown as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Exploring Vue SSR with Fastify as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A guide to reading and writing Node.js streams as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted HTTP Fundamentals: Routing fetch() to an in-memory server instance as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building a Micro Htmx SSR Framework as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Handling Environment Variables in Node.js as a story · 2 points
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