Go: Building Web Applications

Building our C10K web server

Our web server will be responsible for taking requests, routing them, and serving either flat files or dynamic files with templates parsed against a few different data sources.

As mentioned earlier, if we exclusively serve flat files and remove much of the processing and network latency, we'd have a much easier time with handling 10,000 concurrent connections.

Our goal is to approach as much of a real-world scenario as we can—very little of the Web operates on a single server in a static fashion. Most websites and applications utilize databases, CDNs (Content Delivery Networks), dynamic and uncached template parsing, and so on. We need to replicate them whenever possible.

For the sake of simplicity, we'll separate our ...