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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

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

Install ImageMagick for image conversion:

brew install imagemagick

Install tesseract for OCR:

brew install tesseract --all-languages

Or install without --all-languages and install them manually as needed.

	# Automaticlly install pptpd on Amazon EC2 Amazon Linux
	#
	# Ripped from http://blog.diahosting.com/linux-tutorial/pptpd/
	# pptpd source rpm packing by it's authors
	#
	# WARNING:
	# first ms-dns setting to 172.16.0.23, 172.16.0.23 was showing on my
	# /etc/resolv.conf, I'm not sure this is the same on all Amazon AWS zones.
	#
	# You need to adjust your "Security Groups" which you are using too.

	#!/bin/bash

	# Modified by Tianyong Tang
	#
	# Original version's Copyright infomation:
	#
	####################################################
	# #
	# This is a Shell-Based tool of l2tp installation #
	# Version: 1.2 #

	#Using Scrapy with Selenium to scape a rendered page [Updated]
	from scrapy.contrib.spiders.init import InitSpider
	from scrapy.http import Request, FormRequest
	from scrapy.contrib.linkextractors.sgml import SgmlLinkExtractor
	from scrapy.contrib.spiders import CrawlSpider, Rule

	from scrapy.spider import BaseSpider
	from scrapy.selector import HtmlXPathSelector

	from selenium import selenium

	#############################################################################
	# current prompt
	#############################################################################
	# \d – Current date
	# \t – Current time
	# \h – Host name
	# \# – Command number
	# \u – User name
	# \W – Current working directory (ie: Desktop/)
	# \w – Current working directory, full path (ie: /Users/Admin/Desktop)

	#!/bin/bash

	# where to store the sparse-image
	WORKSPACE=~/Documents/workspace.dmg.sparseimage

	create() {
	hdiutil create -type SPARSE -fs 'Case-sensitive Journaled HFS+' -size 60g -volname workspace ${WORKSPACE}
	}

	detach() {

	$ LD_PRELOAD=$PWD/sendmsg.so dig twitter.com @8.8.8.8
	;; Warning: Message parser reports malformed message packet. <-- malformed 因为把压缩指针当作域名一部分了
	;; Question section mismatch: got twitter.com/RESERVED0/CLASS256

	; <<>> DiG 9.9.5-3-Ubuntu <<>> twitter.com @8.8.8.8
	;; global options: +cmd
	;; Got answer:
	;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 44722
	;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 4, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1