Golang At Dailymotion’s Open Source Application “Asteroid”
Before understanding why Golang is used in Dailymotion, let’s understand what is Dailymotion
What is Dailymotion?
Dailymotion is a global video streaming service with a network of over 250 million people. Dailymotion is built on a clever player, using an intuitive algorithm and recommendation made by video experts. Dailymotion is said to be a one-stop place for stories from the best storytellers, creators with one heightened experiencing video.
What is Asteroid?
The asteroid is an open-source application developed by the Dailymotion team to manage their Wireguard server.
Dailymotion team used OpenVPN in order to access the infrastructure resources frequently. One day they decided to try Wireguard and immediately they were able to see various benefits like reduced latency, improvement in performance, ease, and faster setup. In Wireguard after the initial testing, the team faced challenges in adding and removing the users which were needed to be done manually, and in order to ease the process by automating it, “Asteroid “ was created.
Dailymotion Team said -
The app is written in Go and has greatly improved our efficiency when adding and removing access to our infrastructure.
The Asteroid was developed using Golang, due to its feature like
- Small footprint
- Easy to deploy as a single binary
- Fast Compilation
- High Performance
- Concurrency
- Scalability, etc
Following are some of the commands used in Asteroid:-
- For adding a new user $ asteroid add -address=”172.16.0.7/32" -key “eXaMPL3Ave8q+kmNVmiw4KdKiXc//M0EGOY6K9C14nw
- For removing the user $ asteroid delete -key “eXaMPL3Ave8q+kmNVmiw4KdKiXc//M0EGOY6K9C14nw
- To view users added to the server $ asteroid view
- The help command $ asteroid -h
- For Configuration $ cp config/asteroid_example.yaml $HOME/.asteroid.yaml
“Asteroid” was developed as an Open Source in order to give back to the open-source community
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Author: Reemi Shirsath, COO @ Scalent.io — A Golang Specialized Development Company.
