Indeed.. I would have liked to hear what took the Python script 3x longer. The longest part I would assume would be the network requests themselves which is inherent regardless of language.
its actually 180x faster if it went from 3 mins to less then a second
Sounds like it the execution time required to processing the vast amounts of data produced. go is quite likely to beat python in compute bound or data crunching tasks.
Go is definitely faster than Python for those types of tasks, however I'm suspicious of it being that much faster. I've crunched massive data sets in Python and as long as you're aware of its limitations, you can make things pretty zippy.