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Developer Ditches No-Code Platform, Rewrites 34 Workflows in TypeScript, Cuts Memory 10x
A developer deleted two years of no-code automations built on n8n and rewrote 34 workflows in TypeScript using the DBOS framework. Memory usage dropped from ~1.4GB to ~150MB, with idle memory at 48MB. Throughput reached ~1,167 workflows/second with ~30ms overhead per workflow.
Meridian48 take
The post offers a rare honest comparison: the bots aren't faster (LLM latency dominates), but infrastructure efficiency and maintainability improved dramatically, making a strong case for code-first over visual tools for complex automations.
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