Benchmark tests on different server technologies

protobuff-websockets

A test to determine the performance characteristics of using protobuf.js compared to traditional json transmission over a websocket connection.

For the following message format and value:

{
  text: "hello world!"
}

A barebones node.js server:

• sends ~23 bytes using plain JSON.stringify() encoding.
• sends ~14 bytes using protobuf.js' .toBuffer() encoding.