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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.

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Nick Bruun

September 18, 2014

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Transcript

  1. Go for speed

  2. Nick Bruun github.com/nickbruun @nickbruun bruun.co CTO @ Iconfinder Fairly carnivorous

  3. None
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  6. Trouble in icon paradise

  7. None
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  11. 41 ms average response time from Django application during peak

    hours

  12. ~2,000 ms wasted per search

  13. Perceivably slower

  14. The internals

  15. None

  16. 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
  17. None

  18. Constant

  19. Signing requests

  20. https://www.iconfinder.com/icons/298255/677266/128/raster?token=…

  21. None

  22. we know if the user has access right now When

    returning the link,

  23. we know if the user has access right now When

    returning the link,

  24. We’re okay with “right now” being an approximation

  25. Time limited token

  26. <token secret> = "<expiration timestamp>-<session ID>-<nonce>-<URL>"

  27. <token secret> = "<expiration timestamp>-<session ID>-<nonce>-<URL>" <signature> = hmac_sha1(<token secret>,

    <shared secret>)

  28. <token secret> = "<expiration timestamp>-<session ID>-<nonce>-<URL>" <signature> = hmac_sha1(<token secret>,

    <shared secret>) <token> = "<expiration timestamp>-<nonce>-base64(<signature>)"

  29. But, who checks the token?

  30. Enter Go The World’s least Google-able language… from Google

  31. None

  32. Why Go?

  33. Networked service

  34. Highly concurrent ~3,000 requests/second from 100 connections/core

  35. Low memory footprint 14.09 MiB after 21 days

  36. Low CPU usage

  37. Static binary Cross-compilation = deployment heaven

  38. Less decisions to make

  39. Caveats

  40. Structured logging

  41. DIY

  42. Mature runtime != Mature language

  43. Conciseness 608 lines of code

  44. The end result

  45. 1.2 ms average response time at peak hours

  46. 0.1 % CPU usage at peak hours

  47. Go is awesome

  48. Go is awesome for simple services

  49. Go is a trade-off

  50. Go is a trade-off – choose wisely

  51. return