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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

Introduction

This is about documenting getting Linux running on the late 2016 and mid 2017 MPB's; the focus is mostly on the MacBookPro13,3 and MacBookPro14,3 (15inch models), but I try to make it relevant and provide information for MacBookPro13,1, MacBookPro13,2, MacBookPro14,1, and MacBookPro14,2 (13inch models) too. I'm currently using Fedora 27, but most the things should be valid for other recent distros even if the details differ. The kernel version is 4.14.x (after latest update).

The state of linux on the MBP (with particular focus on MacBookPro13,2) is also being tracked on https://github.com/Dunedan/mbp-2016-linux . And for Ubuntu users there are a couple tutorials (here and here) focused on that distro and the MacBook.

Note: For those who have followed these instructions ealier, and in particular for those who have had problems with the custom DSDT, modifying the DSDT is not necessary anymore - se

Achieving warp speed with Rust

Seems gRPC prefers thin client-side load balancing where a client gets a list of connected clients and a load balancing policy from a "load balancer" and then performs client-side load balancing based on the information. However, this could be useful for traditional load banaling approaches in clound deployments.

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/grpc-io/8s7UHY_Q1po

gRPC "works" in AWS. That is, you can run gRPC services on EC2 nodes and have them connect to other nodes, and everything is fine. If you are using AWS for easy access to hardware then all is fine. What doesn't work is ELB (aka CLB), and ALBs. Neither of these support HTTP/2 (h2c) in a way that gRPC needs.

Note:

When this guide is more complete, the plan is to move it into Prepack documentation.
For now I put it out as a gist to gather initial feedback.

A Gentle Introduction to Prepack (Part 1)

If you're building JavaScript apps, you might already be familiar with some tools that compile JavaScript code to equivalent JavaScript code:

Babel lets you use newer JavaScript language features, and outputs equivalent code that targets older JavaScript engines.

	# Simple, scrappy UDP DNS server in Ruby (with protocol annotations)
	# By Peter Cooper
	#
	# MIT license
	#
	# * Not advised to use in your production environment! ;-)
	# * Requires Ruby 1.9
	# * Supports A and CNAME records
	# * See http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1035.txt for protocol guidance
	# * All records get the same TTL

	From f3d652840f8dd959395065a1cf67ca40b04ec69b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
	From: Joan Bruguera <[email protected]>
	Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2020 19:35:55 +0200
	Subject: [PATCH] Get rid of get_fs/set_fs calls in Broadcom WL driver.

	Tentative patch for broadcom-wl 6.30.223.271 driver for Linux 5.10 (tested -rc1 up to 5.10.1)

	Applies on top of all the patches applied to broadcom-wl-dkms 6.30.223.271-23 on Arch Linux.

	NB: Some checks in wlc_ioctl_internal are likely superfluous,

Rodrigo Kochenburger divoxx

Benchmarking Nginx with Go

Introduction

Achieving warp speed with Rust

Contents:

A Gentle Introduction to Prepack (Part 1)