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Yeah; and unlike nginx and Apache, Caddy has a higher degree of memory safety, so it's impervious to a whole class of vulnerabilities.

by mholt 5y ago

throw_m239339 5y ago
> Yeah; and unlike nginx and Apache, Caddy has a higher degree of memory safety, so it's impervious to a whole class of vulnerabilities. At the expense of the memory footprint because developed with Go. Hi Caddy creator!
- eric_h 5y ago
  > At the expense of the memory footprint because developed with Go. Hi Caddy creator! Makes sense to me that something built in a language with more memory safety than C would use more memory, but is it really significant in practice? I use go every day and memory usage has not been a significant issue for many applications.
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  - arp242 5y ago
    I don't use Caddy, but I've written plenty of Go apps (which usually implement their own HTTP server with net/http) with plenty of users, and memory usage has never been much of a concern. There are other performance concerns of course, e.g. GC latencies, and at times the GC may bite you. See e.g. the "taming Go memory usage" story from a few days ago[1], but this usually isn't a huge concern for many use cases. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28608083 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28608083
- whateveracct 5y ago
  We're talking about shaving megs here rofl cmon now terminal systems engineer brain is everywhere
SahAssar 5y ago
Might be nice to disclose your involvement when commenting on caddy-related threads.
- mholt 5y ago
  > I'm the author of the Caddy web server.
  - SahAssar 5y ago
    I'm guessing you mean the about section of your profile. I'm just saying that it's nice to make that more visible when you have that sort of involvement in the topic and it is not obvious.
    - 0des 5y ago
      Why? I prefer when people don't flash their badge at me to support their statements. Words should stand on their own without appeals to authority.
      - SahAssar 5y ago
        It's more the other way around, when saying things about your own product it's nice to disclose your involvement since that definitely colors your view. Especially in cases like this where it's hyping the product.
klaussilveira 5y ago
Definitely not the right place, but thank you for creating Caddy. :)
- mholt 5y ago
  Thanks, you're welcome!

Yeah; and unlike nginx and Apache, Caddy has a higher degree of memory safety, so it's impervious to a whole class of vulnerabilities.

by mholt 5y ago

Yeah; and unlike nginx and Apache, Caddy has a higher degree of memory safety, so it's impervious to a whole class of vulnerabilities.

throw_m239339 5y ago

> Yeah; and unlike nginx and Apache, Caddy has a higher degree of memory safety, so it's impervious to a whole class of vulnerabilities. At the expense of the memory footprint because developed with Go. Hi Caddy creator!

eric_h 5y ago
> At the expense of the memory footprint because developed with Go. Hi Caddy creator! Makes sense to me that something built in a language with more memory safety than C would use more memory, but is it really significant in practice? I use go every day and memory usage has not been a significant issue for many applications.
- deleted 5y ago
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- arp242 5y ago
  I don't use Caddy, but I've written plenty of Go apps (which usually implement their own HTTP server with net/http) with plenty of users, and memory usage has never been much of a concern. There are other performance concerns of course, e.g. GC latencies, and at times the GC may bite you. See e.g. the "taming Go memory usage" story from a few days ago[1], but this usually isn't a huge concern for many use cases. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28608083 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28608083
whateveracct 5y ago
We're talking about shaving megs here rofl cmon now terminal systems engineer brain is everywhere

SahAssar 5y ago

Might be nice to disclose your involvement when commenting on caddy-related threads.

mholt 5y ago
> I'm the author of the Caddy web server.
- SahAssar 5y ago
  I'm guessing you mean the about section of your profile. I'm just saying that it's nice to make that more visible when you have that sort of involvement in the topic and it is not obvious.
  - 0des 5y ago
    Why? I prefer when people don't flash their badge at me to support their statements. Words should stand on their own without appeals to authority.
    - SahAssar 5y ago
      It's more the other way around, when saying things about your own product it's nice to disclose your involvement since that definitely colors your view. Especially in cases like this where it's hyping the product.

klaussilveira 5y ago

Definitely not the right place, but thank you for creating Caddy. :)

mholt 5y ago
Thanks, you're welcome!