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bombomby/optick

C++ Profiler For Games

Stack

C# CMake .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #games #performance #profiler

Updated: 2024-05-25
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-01-17
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 85 open

3,160

stars

Forks: 314
Commits: 573 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

rails/bootsnap

Boot large Ruby/Rails apps faster

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#computers #gem #performance #ruby

Updated: 2026-10-02
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2017-01-18
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 5 open

2,739

stars

Forks: 211
Commits: 850 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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alexfernandez/loadtest

Runs a load test on the selected URL. Fast and easy to use. Can be integrated in your own workflow using the API.

Stack

JavaScript npm

GitHub topics

#loadtesting #nodejs #performance #testing-tools

Updated: 2026-01-13
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2013-06-21
History: 9 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

2,629

stars

Forks: 211
Commits: 636 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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yandex/yandex-tank

Load and performance benchmark tool

Stack

Python pytest pip

GitHub topics

#framework #load-testing #performance #performance-test #python

Updated: 2026-10-07
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-07-23
History: 1 history point
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 98 open

2,599

stars

Forks: 284
Commits: 3,800 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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evanwashere/mitata

benchmark tooling that loves you ❤️

Stack

JavaScript npm

GitHub topics

#benchmark #bun #cpp #deno #graaljs #javascript

Updated: 2025-02-17
Lists: 0 list mentions
First commit: 2022-04-17
History: 46 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 16 open

2,540

stars

Forks: 38
Commits: 73 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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fcsonline/drill

Drill is an HTTP load testing application written in Rust

Stack

Rust Express Cargo npm

GitHub topics

#http #jmeter #performance #performance-testing #rust #tester

Updated: 2026-09-03
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2017-05-18
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 39 open

2,311

stars

Forks: 117
Commits: 324 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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Icinga/icinga2

The core of our monitoring platform with a powerful configuration language and REST API.

Stack

C++ CMake .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#cluster #distributed-monitoring #elastic #graphite #graylog #icinga

Updated: 2026-10-15
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-03-28
History: 8 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 494 open

2,240

stars

Forks: 621
Commits: 15,006 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

P403n1x87/austin

Python frame stack sampler for CPython

Stack

C pytest pip

GitHub topics

#debugging-tools #performance #profiling #python

Updated: 2026-10-09
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-09-23
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 10 open

2,210

stars

Forks: 66
Commits: 408 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

scouter-project/scouter

Scouter is an open source APM (Application Performance Management) tool.

Stack

Java Maven npm

GitHub topics

#agent #apm #asm #bci #bytecode #java-application

Updated: 2026-10-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-06-04
History: 1 history point
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 19 open

2,179

stars

Forks: 571
Commits: 2,970 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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Blazemeter/taurus

Automation-friendly framework for Continuous Testing by

AI dev

Stack

Python Composer .NET SDK Gradle

GitHub topics

#gatling #jenkins #jmeter #load-testing #performance #python

Updated: 2026-10-16
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-02-17
History: 1 history point
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 40 open

2,118

stars

Forks: 458
Commits: 5,197 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

phpbench/phpbench

PHP Benchmarking framework

Stack

PHP Symfony Composer pip

GitHub topics

#benchmark-framework #benchmarking #performance #performance-testing

Updated: 2026-06-14
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-05-03
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 39 open

2,029

stars

Forks: 133
Commits: 1,505 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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h2oai/datatable

A Python package for manipulating 2-dimensional tabular data structures

Stack

C++ PEP 517 pip

GitHub topics

#data-analysis #data-structure #fedramp #ftrl #performance #python

Updated: 2026-09-01
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-03-03
History: 9 history points
License: MPL-2.0
Issues: 183 open

1,877

stars

Forks: 164
Commits: 2,252 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

salsify/goldiloader

Just the right amount of Rails eager loading

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#activerecord #eager-loading #gem #hacktoberfest #performance #ruby-on-rails

Updated: 2026-03-19
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-06-16
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 7 open

1,673

stars

Forks: 53
Commits: 205 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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chronoxor/CppServer

Ultra fast and low latency asynchronous socket server & client C++ library with support TCP, SSL, UDP, HTTP, HTTPS, WebSocket protocols and 10K connections problem solution

AI dev

Stack

C++ CMake

GitHub topics

#async #http #http-server #https #https-server #low-latency

Updated: 2026-09-21
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-12-09
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 59 open

1,652

stars

Forks: 321
Commits: 1,436 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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mgartner/pg_flame

A flamegraph generator for Postgres EXPLAIN ANALYZE output.

Stack

Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#database #flamegraph #performance #performance-visualization #postgres #postgresql

Updated: 2020-01-13
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-10-16
History: 1 history point
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 2 open

1,620

stars

Forks: 36
Commits: 40 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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aimeos/aimeos-typo3

TYPO3 e-commerce extension for ultra fast online shops, scalable marketplaces, complex B2B applications and #gigacommerce

Stack

PHP Composer

GitHub topics

#aimeos #b2b #e-commerce #ecommerce #ecommerce-platform #json-api

Updated: 2026-09-10
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-09-27
History: 3 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 7 open

1,570

stars

Forks: 719
Commits: 1,287 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

adsr/phpspy

low-overhead sampling profiler for PHP 7+

Stack

GitHub topics

#hacktoberfest #performance #php #profiler

Updated: 2026-10-08
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-04-08
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 26 open

1,501

stars

Forks: 71
Commits: 261 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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noripyt/django-cachalot

No effort, no worry, maximum performance.

Stack

Python Django pip

GitHub topics

#cache #django #performance #python

Updated: 2026-08-10
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-09-26
History: 8 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 35 open

1,432

stars

Forks: 158
Commits: 661 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

okuramasafumi/alba

Alba is a JSON serializer for Ruby, JRuby and TruffleRuby.

AI dev

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#hacktoberfest #json #json-serialization #json-serializer #performance #presenter

Updated: 2026-10-01
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2020-01-21
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 6 open

1,205

stars

Forks: 63
Commits: 1,383 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

djezzzl/database_consistency

The tool to avoid various issues due to inconsistencies and inefficiencies between a database schema and application models.

AI dev

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler npm

GitHub topics

#activerecord #consistency #database #optimization #performance #rails

Updated: 2026-09-30
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-10-20
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 5 open

1,193

stars

Forks: 67
Commits: 434 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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gscept/nebula

Nebula is an open-source and free-to-use modern C++ game engine.

AI dev

Stack

C++ CMake

GitHub topics

#classless-api #data-oriented-architecture #game-engine #game-engine-3d #linux #multithreading

Updated: 2026-10-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-05-23
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 35 open

1,101

stars

Forks: 63
Commits: 3,722 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

performancecopilot/pcp

Performance Co-Pilot

AI dev

Stack

C pip

GitHub topics

#analysis #distributed #graph #lightweight #metrics #monitoring

Updated: 2026-10-14
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2007-06-13
History: 8 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 188 open

1,079

stars

Forks: 272
Commits: 36,582 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

bencherdev/bencher

🐰 Bencher - Continuous Benchmarking

AI dev

Stack

Rust Astro Cargo Go modules npm

GitHub topics

#benchmark #benchmarking #cd #ci #ci-cd #code-quality

Updated: 2026-08-30
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2020-07-25
History: 8 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 165 open

894

stars

Forks: 40
Commits: 6,153 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

ozeranskii/httptap

Rich-powered CLI that breaks each HTTP request into DNS, connect, TLS, wait, and transfer phases with waterfall timelines, compact summaries, or metrics-only output.

Stack

Python pytest uv

GitHub topics

#cli #diagnostics #http #http2 #monitoring #networking

Updated: 2026-10-13
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2025-10-22
History: 142 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 0 open

832

stars

Forks: 42
Commits: 342 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +1 +0.1%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: +3 +0.9%

Website GitHub

Basekick-Labs/arc

Open, SQL-native time-series database for telemetry you need to keep. 34M+ records/sec ingestion, 8M+ rows/sec queries. InfluxDB Line Protocol and Telegraf compatible. Open Parquet on your storage. Single binary. S3/Azure native. Air-gap ready. AGPL-3.0.

Stack

Go Cobra gRPC Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#ai #analytical-database #analytics #columnar-database #data-warehouse #database

Updated: 2026-09-10
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2025-10-07
History: 2 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 45 open

676

stars

Forks: 47
Commits: 980 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

panorama-ed/memo_wise

The wise choice for Ruby memoization

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#benchmarks #gem #memoization #memoization-helper #memoization-library #optimization

Updated: 2026-09-28
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-05-05
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 22 open

633

stars

Forks: 26
Commits: 579 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

kprotty/zap

An asynchronous runtime with a focus on performance and resource efficiency.

Stack

Zig Cargo

GitHub topics

#asynchronous #io #networking #performance #runtime #rust

Updated: 2025-01-02
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2021-02-15
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 1 open

553

stars

Forks: 21
Commits: 73 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

DNS-OARC/dnsperf

Moved to https://codeberg.org/DNS-OARC/dnsperf

Archived

Stack

GitHub topics

#dns #performance

Updated: 2026-02-04
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-08-22
History: 5 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: Disabled

478

stars

Forks: 73
Commits: 394 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

kylestetz/lissajous

:musical_note: A tool for programmatic audio performance in the browser using Javascript.

Stack

JavaScript

GitHub topics

#audio #livecoding #music #performance

Updated: 2026-10-07
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-02-23
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 11 open

405

stars

Forks: 24
Commits: 125 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

bntzio/wipe-modules

🗑️ Easily remove the node_modules folder of non-active projects

Stack

Shell npm

GitHub topics

#bash #cleanup #cron #cron-jobs #hacktoberfest #javascript

Updated: 2023-01-30
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-05-03
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 4 open

360

stars

Forks: 6
Commits: 37 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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