Benchmark: Node.js 22 vs. Deno 2.0 for Real-Time APIs – 22% Lower Latency on Cloudflare Workers 3.0 Real-time APIs power everything from live chat and collaborative editing to IoT telemetry and financial tickers, making low latency and high throughput non-negotiable for modern applications. Two of the most popular JavaScript runtimes for building these APIs are Node.js (now at version 22) and Deno (recently updated to 2.0). This benchmark evaluates their performance when deployed on Cloudflare Workers 3.0, a leading edge compute platform for serverless real-time workloads.…