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Great looking app!! I immediately checked how you do location lookups: > IP lookup is powered by https://ipinfo.io https://ipinfo.io. They provide a good serv

Great looking app!! I immediately checked how you do location lookups: > IP lookup is powered by https://ipinfo.io https://ipinfo.io. They provide a good service so please don't spam requests. There was a thread about them recently — the scale of their operation was very surprising.

zero_shift 2y ago
It _is_ possible to use native OS APIs for location lookup, but these all seem to rely on cgo. Which was a bit intimidating for a "let's learn Golang" project (Probably not the nicest code and no doubt I've broken a lot of Go idioms, but it was a good learning exercise) IPInfo is a good service and their developer relations were surprisingly relaxed about me (mis)using their API this way
- reincoder 2y ago
  "Surprisingly relaxed," you say. Let me tell you about the time our users reverse-engineered our apps, submitted 2.2 million IPs, and broke our systems for our hackathon. https://ipinfo.io/blog/ipinfos-ip-hunt-2-2-million-ips-submitted-over-3-weeks-2 https://ipinfo.io/blog/ipinfos-ip-hunt-2-2-million-ips-submi... This is just our user base, to be honest and we like them for their mindset. We are happy to see users try our service in different ways and we learn a ton from them in that process. I certainly learned from you :)
reincoder 2y ago
Thank you very much! I appreciate talking with you in the other thread! I told the repo owner not to worry about "spamming" our service. We are happy to support as many requests as people can throw at us. Internally, when it comes to API requests, we are doing our best to reach an "unlimited" level of API requests. On the operational side, we are just getting started. The distributed network of a thousand servers we operate only runs a handful of diagnostic tests (ping, traceroute, etc.). We have a lot of plans, and I hope you will find us providing more fun stuff as we continue to grow!

zero_shift 2y ago

It _is_ possible to use native OS APIs for location lookup, but these all seem to rely on cgo. Which was a bit intimidating for a "let's learn Golang" project (Probably not the nicest code and no doubt I've broken a lot of Go idioms, but it was a good learning exercise) IPInfo is a good service and their developer relations were surprisingly relaxed about me (mis)using their API this way

reincoder 2y ago
"Surprisingly relaxed," you say. Let me tell you about the time our users reverse-engineered our apps, submitted 2.2 million IPs, and broke our systems for our hackathon. https://ipinfo.io/blog/ipinfos-ip-hunt-2-2-million-ips-submitted-over-3-weeks-2 https://ipinfo.io/blog/ipinfos-ip-hunt-2-2-million-ips-submi... This is just our user base, to be honest and we like them for their mindset. We are happy to see users try our service in different ways and we learn a ton from them in that process. I certainly learned from you :)

reincoder 2y ago

Thank you very much! I appreciate talking with you in the other thread! I told the repo owner not to worry about "spamming" our service. We are happy to support as many requests as people can throw at us. Internally, when it comes to API requests, we are doing our best to reach an "unlimited" level of API requests. On the operational side, we are just getting started. The distributed network of a thousand servers we operate only runs a handful of diagnostic tests (ping, traceroute, etc.). We have a lot of plans, and I hope you will find us providing more fun stuff as we continue to grow!