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It is fast because Redis, which provides the storage, is considerably fast at the tasks necessary to implement such a service. Go has last little to do with it.

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True but it's open source and perhaps people are interested to see something beyond HelloWorld with Go+Redis.

I actually re-wrote it once to switch out Redis for Postgres but it was way too slow.

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