Best practices for writing high-performance Go code

#253 — March 14, 2019

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Tracerr: Go Errors with Stack Trace & Source Fragments— An interesting experiment in making Go error output more informative. More examples here.

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The State of Caching in Go— Spoiler: The results are not great. This post talks about why various cache algorithms don’t work well in Go and what they are going to do about it.

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Designing a Package Manager from the Ground Up - CircleCI Orbs— CircleCI recently launched a package manager just for CI: CircleCI orbs. If you're using orbs today and want to understand how to get the most from them, or if you're thinking about designing your own package management system, this post is for you.

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Best Practices for Writing High-Performance Go Code— We first linked this a year ago and while it remains an ‘in progress’ document, there’s plenty to enjoy and contributions are welcomed if you can flesh it out.

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Managing Go Module Deprecation— An introduction to modcop, a new CLI tool that inspects go.mod files for deprecated versions.

Myles McDonnell

MongoDB Go Driver 1.0.0: The Official MongoDB Driver— 1.0 is finally here after a long process which began with Considering the Community Effects of Introducing an Official MongoDB Go Driver in January 2018.

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📘 Articles & Tutorials

Common Traps, Gotchas, and Common Mistakes for New Go Devs

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An Approach to Dependency Injection in Go using Higher Order Functions

Stein Fletcher

A Brief Introduction to gRPC in Go— A quick tutorial that touches all the main bits of creating a gRPC client and server app with a reasonable amount of explanation.

Kamil Lelonek

📈Data-Driven Guide to Engineering Leadership— Get actionable insights from 7 million commits and 85,000+ engineers, to increase your software teams velocity. Free Guide.

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How Goroutines Work in TinyGo— TinyGo (a microcontroller-aimed compiler) has to take a different approach to the standard Go runtime.

Ayke van Laëthem

The Ups of Downs of Porting 50k Lines of C++ to Go— An old story that’s doing the rounds again :-) “In business terms, the project was a success,” but… “I feel the outcome was suboptimal, in the sense that I wrote two to three times as much code as would have been needed in a language with parametric polymorphism.”

logicchains

Rewriting the Sharding Layer of Uber’s Schemaless Datastore— How Uber rewrote and migrated their fleet of worker nodes from Python to Go without disrupting active service.

Jesper Lindstrøm Nielsen and Anders Johnsen (Uber)

Using Go as the Infrastructure Language at NodeSource— A brief enumeration of the benefits Nodesource gained with Go which could probably apply to your infrastructure, too.

NodeSource

🔧 Tools & Code

go-asciibot: An ASCII Robot Generator— More cute than useful, perhaps.

Matthias Kadenbach

BigQueue: An Embedded, Fast, Persistent Queue in Pure Go— Uses memory mapped files under the hood. Linux, Darwin (macOS) and BSD-only for now.

grandecola

Slim: Space-Efficient Data Structures for Go— An attempt at creating a library of ‘surprisingly space-efficient’ data types, though it’s just a trie structure for now.

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Introducing Kraken, an Open Source Peer-to-Peer Docker Registry— Yes, it’s built in Go! GitHub repo.

Cody Gibb, Evelyn Liu, and Yiran Wang (Uber Engineering)

go-tflite: Go Binding for TensorFlow Lite— Very early days for this.

Yasuhrio Matsumoto

Go Inside a Big Nerd Ranch Bootcamp: Free Online Session 4/24

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Pion WebRTC: A Pure Go Implementation of The WebRTC Native API

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go-bsdiff: Pure Go bsdiff and bspatch Libraries and CLI Tools— For binary patching and diffing.

Gabriel Ochsenhofer

Weaver: A Modern HTTP Reverse Proxy with Dynamic Sharding Strategies

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