Canis Majoris akamajoris

Benchmarking Nginx with Go

There are a lot of ways to serve a Go HTTP application. The best choices depend on each use case. Currently nginx looks to be the standard web server for every new project even though there are other great web servers as well. However, how much is the overhead of serving a Go application behind an nginx server? Do we need some nginx features (vhosts, load balancing, cache, etc) or can you serve directly from Go? If you need nginx, what is the fastest connection mechanism? This are the kind of questions I'm intended to answer here. The purpose of this benchmark is not to tell that Go is faster or slower than nginx. That would be stupid.

So, these are the different settings we are going to compare:

Go HTTP standalone (as the control group)
Nginx proxy to Go HTTP
Nginx fastcgi to Go TCP FastCGI
Nginx fastcgi to Go Unix Socket FastCGI

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	// The libxml entity loader is disabled by default
	// even setting the libxml_disable_entity_loader to false doesn't works!
	//
	// @see http://uk3.php.net/manual/en/function.libxml-disable-entity-loader.php
	// @see http://stackoverflow.com/a/10213239

	$dir = __DIR__;
	$content = 'This is a remote content!';
	file_put_contents('content.txt', $content);

	<?php
	//autoloader
	require_once __DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php';

	use Aws\S3\S3Client;
	use Aws\S3\Enum\CannedAcl;
	//init client
	$s3Client = S3Client::factory(array(
	'key' => '<key>',
	'secret' => '<secret>',

	# coding=utf-8
	"""
	LICENSE http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
	"""
	import datetime
	import sys
	import time
	import threading
	import traceback
	import SocketServer

	#!/usr/bin/python
	# -- coding: utf-8 --

	"""
	A simple thread pool.

	@author: Junaid P V
	@license: GPLv3
	"""

	ruby -e "$(curl -fsSkL https://gist.githubusercontent.com/saetia/2369908/raw/4bf9a6d36060582e69f02c314f66449971a7bb11/parse.rb)" /Users/Joel/site.db.121010.dump

	ruby parse.rb site.120411.dump