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This blog post feels very empty. No code snippets? No actuall before after benchmarks/graphs? How can you state anything without showing numbers?

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Agreed. I posted a comparison between Node and Go UDP socket performance a few months back with some code snippets. My submission was completely ignored. HN can be weird sometimes, huh.

Edit (and shameless plug): http://assil.me/2015/11/07/roadomatic-node-vs-go.html

You might need to read the previous post (and only other one!) to understand how the GeoJSON geospatial query works.

There was an analysis done recently that showed a few votes very early on (I think 4 may have been the number quoted) is often enough to bump you to the front page. Have ten developers on staff, each with an HN account? Some might see that as a free ticket.

At best it's only a very temporary traffic boost, though, unless the content is legitimately interesting enough to warrant return visits.

> Have ten developers on staff, each with an HN account?

I think that's what HN calls a "voting ring" and attempts to detect and counteract.

I don't think it can be detected the first time its attempted with any particular group of users.

Yep, that's true. I got around 5000 page views from Reddit over 2 days, but then the traffic died off.

I've noticed that posts to the same link can be made just hours apart or with a slightly more interesting headline -- while the former gets just a couple votes, the latter makes it to the front page. It's a bit strange.

What's strange about group A reacting to title A differently than a group B reacting to (potentially very different) title B?

may you share your url here ? :)

It's in his submission history.

http://assil.me/2015/11/07/roadomatic-node-vs-go.html

I can confirm some of the statements in that Blog as someone using both also in production. Memory footprint is a lot lower than node like 5-10x times what I've observed on similar code. Go has also very efficient GC, that can be used on large heaps with low latency.

I think would be cool to know at least app type. For something that has a ton of ws connections node will generally have smaller memory footprint.

We are using Go for a lot of internal tooling, text processing, also for websockets and web API. Can you provide some more data about memory footprint in node with websockets? How much memory per connection you saw? From my experience it's the other way around. But the most important point is that while both can have a lot of connections active, when you start sending messages thru that websocket connections you will see a LOT higher latency in node.

after looking at it you are right it is higher for node

Always expecting something like https://aphyr.com/posts/329-jepsen-rethinkdb-2-1-5

Hoping for? Yeah. Expecting? Rarely.

Yep. I was looking for same.

Welcome to the carGo cult :^)

In particular I wished they would have elaborated on the claimed instability in x/net/websocket.

I can't speak to instability, but I had to rewrite a massive stack because gorilla gave me callbacks to execute on control packets and x/net/websocket didn't.

If you have any sort of long lived mobile connection, you will encounter half closed sockets due to mobile network quirks. At scale you really want to clean these up. To do so, you need an application level timeout and you want to listen to the PING/PONG control frames to reset that timeout.

> If you have any sort of long lived mobile connection, you will encounter half closed sockets due to mobile network quirks. At scale you really want to clean these up.

Could golang.org/x/net/context.WithTimeout be used to handle this?

https://github.com/gorilla/websocket#gorilla-websocket-compa...

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