Anders Eknert anderseknert

📂 Minimize allocations in Go

A collection of tips for when you need to minimize the number of allocations in your Go programs.

Use the go profiler to identify which parts of your program are responsible for most allocations.

⚠️ Never apply these tricks blindly (i.e. without measuring the actual performance benefit/impact). ⚠️

Most of these tricks cause a tradeoff between reducing memory allocations and other aspects (including e.g. higher peak memory usage, higher CPU usage, lower maintainability, higher probability of introducing subtle bugs). Only apply these tricks if the tradeoff in every specfic case is globally positive.

SSL is an important security and privacy feature for all websites. Its details are outlined in this wikipedia [article] ("http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Sockets_Layer"). At Scibler, we use SSL certificates, encrypting all traffic to and fro from our servers. SSL is a public-key based asymmetric encryption scheme for symmetric key exchange. Symmetric keys are used for payload encryption. On our servers, we use embedded jetty (ring jetty adapter), with the clojure [ring] (https://github.com/ring-clojure) library to handle the http specific functionality.

This is a tutorial about installing SSL certificates on jetty webservers. SSL certificates are X.509 certificates that can be self-signed (authorized by Scibler) or can be signed by trusted third-parties. Trusted third-party certificates are the ones that a Internet user and browsers trust the most. Trusted third-party certification authorities issue certificates per domain and charge a nominal yearly fee.

####Pre-Requisites

The Java JDK has to be

	(ns untar
	(:import (org.apache.commons.compress.archivers.tar TarArchiveInputStream)
	(java.io File)
	(java.io FileOutputStream)
	(java.io FileInputStream)))

	(defn untar-file
	"untar file and save to location - preserving filenames"
	[zipfile outdirpath]
	(let [buffer (byte-array 1024)