[erlang-questions] [ANN] locus: Geolocation and ASN lookup of IP addresses

[Guilherme Andrade]

Hi Max,


On 1 January 2018 at 21:16, Max Lapshin <max.lapshin@REDACTED> wrote:

> what is the difference from https://github.com/mochi/egeoip ?
>

My original motivation in writing this library was indeed to create a
modern replacement for egeoip, which I've depended upon for the past few
years.

Some of the things I desired:

1) Not having snapshots of the database committed into the repository
    - This makes the repository grow over time and cloning it taking ever
longer.

2) Making database updates seamless
    - Which was solved by loading them from network (closely related to 1.)
    - Caching on the local file system is then leveraged to reduce
potentially
      reduced reliability.
    - In order to not consume too much bandwidth, conditional HTTP requests
      are used whenever possible.

3) Support for the GeoLite2 databases
    - GeoLite Legacy databases are being discontinued and will no longer
receive updates after April 2018.

4) Less rigidly structured entries
    - Which was solved by returning entries as maps instead of records and
having the code
      be particularly unopinionated about what data those entries contain.

5) Not having a limited number of workers as a potential bottleneck
    - This was solved by sharing the different database sections as
reference-counted binaries
      through ETS



-- 
Guilherme
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