Eddie Flores ef2k

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

Port Forwarding in Mavericks

Since Mavericks stopped using the deprecated ipfw (as of Mountain Lion), we'll be using pf to allow port forwarding.

####1. anchor file Create an anchor file under /etc/pf.anchors/<anchor file> with your redirection rule like:

WARNING: If you're reading this in 2021 or later, you're likely better served by reading:

(This gist was created in 2013 and targeted the legacy GOPATH mode.)

$ ssh -A vm
$ git config --global url."[email protected]:".insteadOf "https://github.com/"

	/*
	requires libgit2


	*/


	package main

	import (

	function ParsedUrl(url) {
	var parser = document.createElement("a");
	parser.href = url;

	// IE 8 and 9 dont load the attributes "protocol" and "host" in case the source URL
	// is just a pathname, that is, "/example" and not "http://domain.com/example".
	parser.href = parser.href;

	// IE 7 and 6 wont load "protocol" and "host" even with the above workaround,
	// so we take the protocol/host from window.location and place them manually

	[unix_http_server]
	file=/var/run/supervisor.sock
	chmod=0770
	chown=root:supervisor

	[supervisord]
	pidfile=/var/run/supervisord.pid
	nodaemon=false
	logfile=/var/log/supervisord/supervisord.log
	loglevel=error

	FROM ubuntu:13.10

	RUN apt-get update

	RUN DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get -y install golang

	RUN mkdir /go
	RUN export GOPATH=/go
	ENV GOPATH /go
	RUN export PATH=$PATH:$GOPATH/bin

	var gulp = require('gulp');
	var browserify = require('gulp-browserify');
	var concat = require('gulp-concat');
	var styl = require('gulp-styl');
	var refresh = require('gulp-livereload');
	var lr = require('tiny-lr');
	var server = lr();

	var paths = {
	js: 'src/*/.js',

	var message = "hello, how are you Tal?";

	if (~message.indexOf('Tal')) {
	console.log('found matching text');
	}

	p {
	font-size:18px;
	line-height:24px;
	text-align: justify;
	background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAAbCAYAAAC5rTVJAAAA3ElEQVQY0wXBwU3CABQA0Oe3IVgarFpDwYNH41GvLuMYzuQ4boBKiqGBptbCoQHf8+b19C4/vb44RWElmTdWEyJXaUuqMZFaO1zykxCJ2nDBJoghoxnjeCv6lHqEYSaaKdsc+4WoMz5nN/QLsZ7wcXjkrxSrCdvjE10hqjG+zmlz8ZOgSehTsQkcS7pEON6yD4VBGGa0Y6Ve2C/YPptrhH7h+vvgTi38lR7USmuhK9zrZZZCm7uy1VkKfSrVoRa6xJmdQisKA1qjlCj1Er/SjJhrDCrNlLhTK+3UGf/2IVZs3eANJQAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==);
	background-size:100% 72px;
	-webkit-background-clip:text;
	-webkit-text-fill-color:transparent
	}