Space Monkey dumps Python for Go
Well it is kind of obvious that a compiled language is going to be faster than an interpreted one, especially the way how these interpreters work (<a href="https://wiki.python.org/moin/GlobalInterpreterLock" rel="nofollow">https://wiki.python.org/moin/GlobalInterpreterLock</a>). You can fool yourself with Twisted (or in Ruby with EventMachine, Goliath etc.) but it gets so just a bit ahead. The surprising fact for me is that Go is not as much faster. I was expecting a bigger gap in the performance between Go and Python. Understanding where your bottlenecks are is crucial and it is not super hard in Go. <a href="https://www.datadoghq.com/2014/04/go-performance-tales/" rel="nofollow">https://www.datadoghq.com/2014/04/go-performance-tales/</a> I guess the SpaceMonkey guys might further improve the performance just by doing a thorough analysis on their code.