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Nick Bruun
September 18, 2014
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Go for speed
A look at a use case for Go at Iconfinder, which shaved ~40 ms off asset load times.
Nick Bruun
September 18, 2014
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Go for speed
Nick Bruun github.com/nickbruun @nickbruun bruun.co CTO @ Iconfinder Fairly carnivorous
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Trouble in icon paradise
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41 ms average response time from Django application during peak
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~2,000 ms wasted per search
Perceivably slower
The internals
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Icon ID Icon version ID Raster size https://www.iconfinder.com/icons/298255/677266/128/raster https://cdn0.iconfinder.com/data/icons/seo-smart-pack/128/ grey_new_seo2-43-128.png
Public raster URL Protected raster URL
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Constant
Signing requests
https://www.iconfinder.com/icons/298255/677266/128/raster?token=…
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we know if the user has access right now When
returning the link,
we know if the user has access right now When
returning the link,
We’re okay with “right now” being an approximation
Time limited token
<token secret> = "<expiration timestamp>-<session ID>-<nonce>-<URL>"
<token secret> = "<expiration timestamp>-<session ID>-<nonce>-<URL>" <signature> = hmac_sha1(<token secret>,
<shared secret>)
<token secret> = "<expiration timestamp>-<session ID>-<nonce>-<URL>" <signature> = hmac_sha1(<token secret>,
<shared secret>) <token> = "<expiration timestamp>-<nonce>-base64(<signature>)"
But, who checks the token?
Enter Go The World’s least Google-able language… from Google
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Why Go?
Networked service
Highly concurrent ~3,000 requests/second from 100 connections/core
Low memory footprint 14.09 MiB after 21 days
Low CPU usage
Static binary Cross-compilation = deployment heaven
Less decisions to make
Caveats
Structured logging
DIY
Mature runtime != Mature language
Conciseness 608 lines of code
The end result
1.2 ms average response time at peak hours
0.1 % CPU usage at peak hours
Go is awesome
Go is awesome for simple services
Go is a trade-off
Go is a trade-off – choose wisely
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