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My experiment with golang and social counters

Starting with my frustration while building the scroll  website: the social buttons are freaking slow to load. Especially on pages that has a lot of scripts (like mine) it is way worse. The buttons usually take minutes to show up and when they do, each of them render differently from the rest. Thanks Facebook, Twitter and Google for that. So I went in and found a few options. It looks like people made a few scripts that will collect the counters via AJAX (on user browser) and render the buttons with images. Some use data URI to avoid triggering more requests, brilliant! Since I wanted to make something super simple and fast to use, I decided to have one script that does all of those. The server will keep track of the counters and put them in the script so everything needed is one and only one request. I needed 3 social networks and each of them has different ways to retrieve the counters so I figured the server has to make the requests asynchronously, cache the values for sometime