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There are many ways to quickly get and use a GeoIP DB like MaxMind, most requiring way less than 20 minutes. This is just one example of something I started usi
by heipei 9y ago
There are many ways to quickly get and use a GeoIP DB like MaxMind, most requiring way less than 20 minutes. This is just one example of something I started using recently:
docker run -p 8080:8080 -d fiorix/freegeoip
curl localhost:8080/json/1.2.3.4
(Repo: https://github.com/fiorix/freegeoip https://github.com/fiorix/freegeoip)
- motet_a 9y agoYes, Docker is great but learning it can definitely require more than 20 minutes. A `curl ipinfo.io` is still simpler.
- deno 9y agoThis is the tax you’re paying for that every time: Connected to 35.165.108.15:443 HTTP/1.1 200 OK Server: nginx/1.8.1 Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8 Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2017 08:54:40 GMT X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff Connection: keep-alive Body discarded DNS Lookup TCP Connection TLS Handshake Server Processing Content Transfer [ 4ms | 244ms | 518ms | 525ms | 0ms ] | | | | | namelookup:4ms | | | | connect:248ms | | | pretransfer:767ms | | starttransfer:1292ms | total:1292ms
- wittedhaddock 9y agoWhat tool (or arg passed to curl maybe) allowed you to generate that response? The graph is great
- deno 9y agohttps://github.com/reorx/httpstat https://github.com/reorx/httpstat It’s great for checking something quickly, otherwise you have the same thing in browser’s dev tools.
- gfodor 9y agoThe OP was "baffled" why anyone would ever use this API. Clearly, the API's success shows that sometimes this tax you highlight is well worth it. (That was my point as well.) Nobody is claiming the tax doesn't exist, just that it shouldn't be baffling that a rational actor would choose to pay the tax in exchange for the corresponding benefits. (Not to mention with very minimal effort you can usually avoid the majority of the specific tax of latency you mention, by doing things like parallelizing the request with other work or doing it asynchronously to the user's interface.)
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- callumjones 9y agoWhere are you going to host it, how will you cycle the container to keep it up to date, and will you need to load balance it? Running a Docker container in production is not a 20 minute job.
- deno 9y agoJust put HAProxy in front of it. It’s not rocket science. https://www.haproxy.com/solutions/microservices.html https://www.haproxy.com/solutions/microservices.html
- callumjones 9y agoSetting up HAProxy in a production environment with discovery for the docker container may not be rocket science but it’s certainly not 20 minutes.