jdleo / asking

open-source strawpoll alternative. dockerized as a stack w/ react frontend, express api, postgresql backend.

asking.one

Very lightweight service to create/vote on polls.

Stack

• React
• Express
• PostgreSQL
• Docker
• Docker Compose
• Github Actions

Dev

docker-compose -f docker-compose.dev.yml up -d --build

Prod

docker-compose -f docker-compose.prod.yml up -d --build

Benchmarks

• Performed against the API which is running in a Docker container
• Using K6 for load testing
• Running on a machine with: ubuntu 21.04, 1gb ram, 1vcore

action	requests/second
healthcheck	998
create poll	91
retrieve poll (has 0 votes)	234
retrieve poll (has 10,000 votes)	270
vote on poll	88