hvoecking

// Traverses an arbitrary struct and translates all stings it encounters
//
// I haven't seen an example for reflection traversing an arbitrary struct, so
// I want to share this with you. If you encounter any bugs or want to see
// another example please comment.
//
// The MIT License (MIT)
//
// Copyright (c) 2014 Heye Vöcking
//

hgfischer

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

arunoda

Installing SSHPASS

SSHPass is a tiny utility, which allows you to provide the ssh password without using the prompt. This will very helpful for scripting. SSHPass is not good to use in multi-user environment. If you use SSHPass on your development machine, it don't do anything evil.

Installing on Ubuntu

apt-get install sshpass

Installing on OS X

tylerneylon

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ashrithr

Introduction to Kafka

Kafka acts as a kind of write-ahead log (WAL) that records messages to a persistent store (disk) and allows subscribers to read and apply these changes to their own stores in a system appropriate time-frame.

Terminology:

• Producers send messages to brokers
• Consumers read messages from brokers
• Messages are sent to a topic

mendelgusmao

# based on http://uberblo.gs/2011/06/high-performance-url-shortening-with-redis-backed-nginx
# using code from http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3554315/lua-base-converter

# "database scheme"
# database 0: id ~> url
# database 1: id ~> hits
# database 2: id ~> [{referer|user_agent}]
# database 3: id ~> hits (when id is not found)
# database 4: id ~> [{referer|user_agent}] (when id is not found)
# database 5: key "count" storing the number of shortened urls; the id is generated by (this number + 1) converted to base 62

huljas

import org.junit.Test;
import java.util.Date;
import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;

public class StringFormatTest {

    @Test public void basicInteger() {
        assertEquals("123456", String.format("%d", 123456));
    }