https://matt.aimonetti.net/categories/performance-/ Recent content in Performance on Matt Aimonetti Hugo en-us Sun, 23 Jun 2013 00:00:00 +0000 https://matt.aimonetti.net/posts/2013-06-using-go-vs-ruby-for-web-apis/ Sun, 23 Jun 2013 00:00:00 +0000 https://matt.aimonetti.net/posts/2013-06-using-go-vs-ruby-for-web-apis/ <p>A few days ago, I was wondering if using <a href="https://golang.org/">Go</a> would be worth it when developing new web APIs. I obviously knew that Go would be faster than Ruby, but I wasn&rsquo;t sure how much faster. I also wondering about the amount of work required to write get a full API implemented.</p> <p>I therefore wrote the same web API in Ruby (using Rails) and in Go (at first using Revel and then rewriting it without a framework since Go&rsquo;s std lib have everything one might need). The API spec was simple:</p>