geoip-api-server

README

simple api for geoip

with single IP address load test it does about 11k requests/second, but with appropriate caching should be possible to take it 20k requests/second

installation

clone the repo, change to geoip-api-server directory

download the go library

go get github.com/oschwald/geoip2-golang

go build geoip-api-server.go

download the Maximind database, extract it, change the path in code(os simply use the current directory)

run the app

./geoip-api-server 2014/05/08 16:18:22 Listening port:3000

curl http://127.0.0.1:3000/ip/202.54.1.5 {["ISO country code":"IN","ip":202.54.1.5","timezone":Asia/Kolkata]}

curl http://127.0.0.1:3000/ip/81.2.69.142 {["ISO country code":"GB","ip":81.2.69.142","timezone":Europe/London]}

load test

wrk http://127.0.0.1:3000/ip/81.2.69.142 Running 10s test @ http://127.0.0.1:3000/ip/81.2.69.142 2 threads and 10 connections Thread Stats Avg Stdev Max +/- Stdev Latency 0.88ms 473.14us 2.43ms 61.64% Req/Sec 5.93k 379.81 6.89k 66.63% 112711 requests in 10.00s, 20.10MB read Requests/sec: 11271.02 Transfer/sec: 2.01MB

todo

object should be converted into valid json and returned additional fields need to be shared