SBitter: Santa Barbara Makerspace Twitter Clone

Demo app created to show off OpenWeb's ability to build scalable web applications as part of Santa Barbara Makerspace's SBitter programming competition.

(Go version)

Benchmark Summary

Setup: 10,000 read-only requests, 100 concurrently, with MongoDB in Strong mode (very safe).

Results

• 1-core Go, no caching
  • 380 req/sec
• 1-core Go, Memcache
  • 1300 req/sec => 3.4x speedup from original thanks to Memcache
• 6-core Go, no caching
  • 2819 req/sec => 7.4x speedup from original due to parallelism
• 6-core Go, Memcache
  • 7009 req/sec => 18.4x speedup total

See BENCHMARKS.md for details.