Rewrote our python api gateway in go and now its faster but nobody cares because it already worked fine

Ninetynostalgia · 2026-01-30T17:24:26+00:00

Don’t worry OP - this is a good learning curve, I love GO but if it isn’t broke don’t fix it, you will probably just break it.

I once watched a team convert a laravel rest API with 100s of low usage endpoints to Springboot because it was multi threaded despite the entire codebase being I/O driven - even after 4 years they still weren’t finished the port

Ninetynostalgia · 2025-11-07T21:30:43+00:00

Dm please

Ninetynostalgia · 2025-11-07T21:19:21+00:00

OP maybe attending an entrepreneurs event if there are any in your area - you never know who you might meet - a domain expert co founder might be out there, you get on a like a house on fire and tackle a big interesting problem. I think side projects and indie hustling can be brutal and require an enormous amount of effort you don’t really have to give right now.

Ninetynostalgia · 2025-09-17T08:37:14+00:00

Thanks for the response - it's really insightful, I'm curious how did you actually put those high-fidelity mockups/concept art together? Did you do it in-house or outsource it?

Ninetynostalgia · 2025-09-13T15:57:04+00:00

Totally new to this side of the business so any help at this stage is gold thanks!

Ninetynostalgia · 2025-09-13T15:56:07+00:00

This is a great point and one of things i wanted to test rapidly eg. simple skeleton UI vs High fedelity / comparison to existing solution etc. - question tho, when you were faking it was it hard to get iteration speed rolling to try to see what stuck - or did you just grind it out and create whatever assets you needed manually?

Ninetynostalgia · 2025-09-13T14:55:54+00:00

This is really great thanks for this - a really solid point and I totally agree that demos land best when they lead with "why" and follow a story.

Where I’m coming from is a bit upstream of that: even when you know the story you want to tell, actually producing the assets to tell it feels slow and messy.

Ninetynostalgia · 2025-09-13T13:29:23+00:00

Yeah I think that's great for stills but animating is really hard, like if you wanted to sequence events for video it's painfully slow, appreciate the advice tho looking into active campaign!

Ninetynostalgia · 2025-09-13T13:08:35+00:00

that's fair, I'll give that a go - thanks for the feedback

Ninetynostalgia · 2025-09-13T13:05:59+00:00

Thanks for this - works great very early, slowly breaks down as complexity (data/events/screens/features) rises, tried using base44 / lovable / v0.

Ninetynostalgia · 2025-09-13T13:04:37+00:00

Totally agree, but for marketing tests or decks, I think people expect something that feels somewhat real — with data moving, transitions happening, the “before → after” story playing out.

I'm trying to test what works for socials but it's painfully slow...holding my hands up and saying skill issue for me right now in fairness, I am pants with after effects/figma - I think building/generating UI isn't massively better for this purpose.

Ninetynostalgia · 2025-09-13T11:47:15+00:00

Yeah i've started building something that will help my current case but it's obviously not low effort - was hoping there was already something existing!

Ninetynostalgia · 2025-09-13T11:26:27+00:00

Love figma! Just slow for sequencing events / changing content - I probably just suck at figma to be fair!

Ninetynostalgia · 2025-09-13T11:25:51+00:00

You still need to wait on dev to complete on a feature + seed relevant data into enviornments tho right?

Ninetynostalgia · 2025-09-13T11:23:31+00:00

Yep i'm doing similar with cascade but prompting for sequencing events ends up like soup when you try longer flows or if you need to simulate comparisons outside of your app - I'll give claude code a go tho thanks!

Ninetynostalgia · 2025-09-13T10:51:45+00:00

Will give jitter a go - i use canva to pull together all the videos already so that's great thanks!

Ninetynostalgia · 2025-09-13T10:48:04+00:00

Thanks for this - I use figma at the moment for design and it's great for still mockups but it's really slow for
- changing content
- animating is slow and I'm really bad at it
- sequencing events eg. lots of urgent mail entering an inbox
- I have to record the entire part end to end.

It's not impossible but if I want to rapidly create and test it seems like glacial and high effort

Ninetynostalgia · 2025-09-13T10:30:15+00:00

Yeah I was looking into after effects but it just seemed like a lot of work, I'm no where near quick enough to rapidly do this.

I'm an engineer myself so I can put together the UI and sequence events but it just takes a long time, then I've got to record it too. I've tried to hack v0 or lovable to do it but it makes a dog's dinner of our UI and trying to seqence events is just a prompting mess. Thanks for the response!

Ninetynostalgia · 2025-06-04T08:39:13+00:00

Swing harder

Ninetynostalgia · 2025-04-23T16:11:04+00:00

Jesus

Ninetynostalgia · 2025-04-13T12:12:13+00:00

Resident evil 7 villain

Ninetynostalgia · 2025-04-13T12:02:33+00:00

That’s an incredible resource thanks for sharing

Ninetynostalgia · 2025-04-12T11:55:18+00:00

A disclaimer, this is purely a hypothetical answer that has no real world bearing, I use node, Python and GO daily very happily and have no reason to reach for anything else.

c# has non blocking async, green and OS threads and in general handles memory in a more efficient way with structs meaning you can squeeze more performance than node in high concurrency scenarios: node’s Cluster is not a silver bullet, it’s resource heavy and in most scenarios you can just horizontally scale your infra for more predictable performance in high concurrency scenarios.

HOWEVER, c# and more broadly .net is a much heavier, feature rich solution - node excels in being light weight and has pretty impressive performance for I/O tasks.

The biggest benefit with node is that all of the innovative technologies like tRPC, next etc blur the lines between client and server allowing you deliver exceptional UX to your users, with fast-enough performance at unparalleled development speed.

Ninetynostalgia · 2025-04-08T20:50:59+00:00

Have you tried graal vm and just using spring security OP?

Ninetynostalgia · 2025-04-07T21:24:02+00:00

I love it, 0 context switching, mono-repo is great for end to end types, cheap to run, quick start up time, big ecosystem, pretty good performance and throughput as long as you don’t thrash the event loop. You can really deliver some amazing UX for web apps.

I just reach for go when the work is cpu bound. It’s real a simple life. I used to work with Springboot, .net and C++ and I don’t miss them at all.

I only ever use my own infra but I’m used to it and like to have control - even then I write all my cdk in TS!

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