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Hekla

Last updated 2026-09-11 · benchmark measured 2026-09-11 — deterministic & reproducible

Hekla is an event-sourcing runtime with its own declaration language and a single binary.

Is Hekla production-ready?

Legit.Show scores Hekla 73 out of 100 — the simple average of its 7 measured frames. Legit.Show ran its deterministic 7-Frame production-readiness benchmark on Hekla (public-surface assessment), measured from the public surface with no LLM in the scoring path. Its strongest frame is Performance; its weakest is Privacy. Every frame it averages is published with its evidence on the Legit.Show listing.

The 7 Frames

• Performance — 100/100
• Accessibility — 97/100
• Security — 25/100
• Privacy — 25/100
• Reliability — 100/100
• Standards — 92/100
• Discoverability — 75/100

What we measured

• No Content-Security-Policy and no HSTS.
• Served over HTTPS with a valid certificate.
• Real Lighthouse performance run — 892 ms to first byte.
• Returns a proper 404 for unknown routes.
• 3 of 3 sampled routes reachable.
• No privacy policy found.
• Sets cookies / loads scripts with no consent prompt.
• Discoverable: OpenGraph image, canonical URL.

Who it's for

Backend developers · Systems engineers · Event-driven architecture builders · Distributed systems teams · Pre-1.0 early adopters

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