How we made our Go microservice 24x faster

As data intensive backend applications scale and grow, with larger data sets scaled out to higher availability, performance bottlenecks can quickly become major hurdles. Processing requests that once took mere milliseconds can suddenly become multi-minute problems.

In this blog post, let’s take a look at some recent optimization strategies the OpenSauced pizza micro-service recently underwent. This backend service is a Go server that processes git commits by request, sometimes processing thousands of commits in one single request. You can almost …

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