Torsten Curdt tcurdt

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

Never touch your local /etc/hosts file in OS X again

To setup your computer to work with *.test domains, e.g. project.test, awesome.test and so on, without having to add to your hosts file each time.

Requirements

Homebrew
Mountain Lion -> High Sierra

	# Install QEMU OSX port with ARM support
	sudo port install qemu +target_arm
	export QEMU=$(which qemu-system-arm)

	# Dowload kernel and export location
	curl -OL \
	https://github.com/dhruvvyas90/qemu-rpi-kernel/blob/master/kernel-qemu-4.1.7-jessie
	export RPI_KERNEL=./kernel-qemu-4.1.7-jessie

	# Download filesystem and export location

	gettype = function (x) {
	return {}.toString.call(x).match(/\s([a-zA-Z]+)/)[1];
	};


	diff = function () {
	this.comp=null; // comparation object
	this.hnd=function(){}; // no function
	};

	import UIKit

	extension UIImage {
	public enum GIFBehavior {
	case unclamped, clamped(TimeInterval), webkit

	fileprivate func duration(_ properties: Any?) -> TimeInterval? {

	// Look for specified image duration; always prefer unclamped delay time
	guard let properties: [String: Any] = (properties as? [String: Any])?["{GIF}"] as? [String: Any],

	package main

	import (
	"code.google.com/p/gcfg"
	"fmt"
	r "github.com/dancannon/gorethink"
	irc "github.com/fluffle/goirc/client"
	"log"
	"strings"
	)

	var localStorageActionCreator = function(flux, store) {
	var _timerId = null;

	// only way I can think to get the dispatcher into the timer actions
	// which are not real actions
	var _dispatch = flux.dispatchBinder.dispatch;

	// force save every little bit in case this storage object doesn't get a chance
	// to save
	setInterval(_persistData, 60 * 1000);

	extension Array {

	func first() -> Element? {
	if isEmpty {
	return nil
	}
	return self[0]
	}

	func last() -> Element? {

	#!/bin/bash

	usage ()
	{
	cat <<UsageHERE
	boot2docker-fwd -- Helper function to quickly manage port forwards between the boot2docker-vm and the host
	Usage: boot2docker-fwd [ -n RULE_NAME ] [ -h HOST_PORT ] [ -p {tcp\|udp} ] [ -i HOST_IP ] GUEST_PORT
	or boot2docker-fwd -d RULE_NAME
	or boot2docker-fwd -l
	or boot2docker-fwd -A

	// Taken from http://PSPDFKit.com. This snippet is under public domain.
	#define UIKitVersionNumber_iOS_7_0 0xB57
	BOOL PSPDFIsUIKitFlatMode(void) {
	static BOOL isUIKitFlatMode = NO;
	static dispatch_once_t onceToken;
	dispatch_once(&onceToken, ^{
	// We get the modern UIKit if system is running >= iOS 7 and we were linked with >= SDK 7.
	if (kCFCoreFoundationVersionNumber >= kCFCoreFoundationVersionNumber_iOS_7_0) {
	isUIKitFlatMode = (NSVersionOfLinkTimeLibrary("UIKit") >> 16) >= UIKitVersionNumber_iOS_7_0;
	}

Torsten Curdt tcurdt

Benchmarking Nginx with Go

Never touch your local /etc/hosts file in OS X again

Requirements

Install