Several years ago I created a free web service, ipify.
ipify is a freely available, highly scalable ip address lookup service. When you query its ...
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Awesome write-up, thanks for sharing the journey of this project. It's very cool to see how you evolved and improved the API to support the growth over time.
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it :D
I thought it'd be fun to recap the story of how things have been growing.
Hi Randall,
great and useful apis ... I don't know if you have seen this two post ... with incredible benchmark
ayende.com/blog/181505-C/handling-...
dizzy.zone/2018/01/23/Kestrel-vs-G...
I did get a lot of slack for using Iris though!
This was a great read! I remember going to a NodeJS meetup in Chicago this past summer where you were the guest speaker. That was an awesome talk, and I can't wait to read more of your stuff on Dev.to!
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it ^
Great job!
I can't believe Node was having serious trouble at such a low number of requests per second.
Yah, pretty crazy right? One of my friends was interested in this (and is fan of Crystal lang), so he cloned ipify in Crystal to perform benchmarks.
You can see his results here: github.com/crcastle/ipify-api
His results make Crystal look pretty appealing from a performance standpoint (note: we are on different boxes, so things aren't 100% similar). But it looks like Crystal performs pretty close to Go =)
Cool info! Can you recap what your production setup ended up being (the full stack, number of dynos, link to the source)?
Sure. The code is all open source (it's extremely simple): github.com/rdegges/ipify-api
Currently, it runs on between 4 and 6 1x dynos on Heroku depending on load. Nothing special.
Great Piece. Nice to see that you can actually get to this level being just one developer. Kudos Man, great work!
Thanks!
Cool story, thanks for posting! Very impressed by all the API business.
I found your story very similar to ipinfo.io, that i found here blog.ipinfo.io/
One of the good articles I've read. Also, this excites me about go :P
Ayende wrote a blog post about this:
ayende.com/blog/181505-C/handling-...
Awesome read. Really interesting journey of building something that does one thing great and sounds like the new de facto package for what it does.