This is a word lookup program for Scrabble and Words With Friends.
I used this as a vehicle to experiment with several cloud service providers and evaluate the performance of several popular server-side languages.
- Go, hosted by Google App Engine
- NodeJS, hosted by Heroku
- PHP, hosted by GoDaddy
- Python, hosted by Google App Engine
Note there may be a warm-up time for each version of the Wordfinder so multiple runs are advised. A summary of results are shown at the bottom.