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Making Go more efficient Dec 15, 2022

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Mat invites Bartłomiej Płotka, Kemal Akkoyun & Christian Simon to discuss how to make Go code more efficient through modern observability practices.

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Bartlomiej Płotka – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Kemal Akkoyun – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Christian Simon – X
Mat Ryer – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

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Bartek’s “Efficient Go” Book
Vitess Benchmark
Tools for Monitoring Applications Logs
Prometheus library for Go
Profiling Go Programs
pprof tool (also available in go tool pprof)
pkg.go.dev/net/http/pprof
pkg.go.dev/runtime/pprof
Building a Go Profiler using Go
Liz Rice on eBPF
Arena proposal

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Hacking with Go: Part 3 Dec 08, 2022

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Ivan Kwiatkowski joins Natalie once again for a follow-up episode to Hacking with Go: Part 2. This time we’ll get Ivan’s perspective on the way Go’s security features are designed and used, from the user/hacker perspective. And of course we will also talk about how AI fits into all this…

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FireHydrant – The reliability platform for every developer. Incidents impact everyone, not just SREs. FireHydrant gives teams the tools to maintain service catalogs, respond to incidents, communicate through status pages, and learn with retrospectives. Small teams up to 10 people can get started for free with all FireHydrant features included. No credit card required to sign up. Learn more at firehydrant.com/

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Ivan Kwiatkowski – GitHub, Mastodon, X
Natalie Pistunovich – GitHub, X

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To TDD or not to TDD Dec 01, 2022

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That is the question. Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous test coverage, or to take arms against a sea of bugs…

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Bill Kennedy – Website, GitHub, X
Chris James – GitHub, X
Natalie Pistunovich – GitHub, X
Mat Ryer – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

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How Pinterest delivers software at scale Nov 24, 2022

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Nishant Roy, Engineering Manager at Pinterest Ads, joins Johnny & Jon to detail how they’ve managed to continue shipping quality software from startup through hypergrowth all the way to IPO. Prepare to learn a lot about Pinterest’s integration and deployment pipeline, observability stack, Go-based services and more.

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FireHydrant – The reliability platform for every developer. Incidents impact everyone, not just SREs. FireHydrant gives teams the tools to maintain service catalogs, respond to incidents, communicate through status pages, and learn with retrospectives. Small teams up to 10 people can get started for free with all FireHydrant features included. No credit card required to sign up. Learn more at firehydrant.com/
Calhoun Black Friday – Go Time co-host Jon Calhoun is having a Black Friday sale on November 21st-29th. All paid courses will be 50% OFF. Learn more about Jon’s courses at calhoun.io/courses

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Nishant Roy – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Johnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, X
Jon Calhoun – Website, GitHub, X

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gRPC & protocol buffers Nov 17, 2022

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On a previous episode of Go Time we discussed binary bloat, and how the Go protocol buffer implementation is a big offender. In this episode we dive into the history of protocol buffers and gRPC, then we discuss how the protocol and the implementation can vary and lead to things like binary bloat.

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FireHydrant – The reliability platform for every developer. Incidents impact everyone, not just SREs. FireHydrant gives teams the tools to maintain service catalogs, respond to incidents, communicate through status pages, and learn with retrospectives. Small teams up to 10 people can get started for free with all FireHydrant features included. No credit card required to sign up. Learn more at firehydrant.com/
Calhoun Black Friday – Go Time co-host Jon Calhoun is having a Black Friday sale on November 21st-29th. All paid courses will be 50% OFF. Learn more about Jon’s courses at calhoun.io/courses

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Akshay Shah – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Jon Calhoun – Website, GitHub, X
Johnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, X

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Debugging Go Nov 10, 2022

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Natalie & Ian welcome Liran Haimovitch & Tiago Queiroz to the show for a discussion focused on debugging Go programs. They cover good & bad debugging practices, the difficulty of debugging in the cloud, the value of errors logs & metrics, the practice of debugging in production (or not) & much more!

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Liran Haimovitch – GitHub, X
Tiago Queiroz – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Natalie Pistunovich – GitHub, X
Ian Lopshire – GitHub, X

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Go in medicine & biology Nov 04, 2022

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Today we’re talking about uses for Go in the medical industry. Tim Stiles develops and maintains a Go package for synthetic biology and molecular biology called Poly. It has broad applications for biotech R&D, but also has very direct applications to medicine.

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Tim Stiles – GitHub, X
Natalie Pistunovich – GitHub, X
Ian Lopshire – GitHub, X

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Poly on GitHub
The algorithm of the professor used by 23and me and others
Central Dogma of DNA of biology
The Three-Body Problem
AlphaFold
Gitpod
Foldit
Go library for Huggingface
SurrealDB
Booth’s Least Rotation Go Implementation and wiki

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Spooky stories to scare devs 👻 Oct 27, 2022

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Mat Ryer gathers a gang of ghouls and ghosts to tell spooky developer stories! Join us to hear tales of Mat’s $1k nightmare, Dee’s infinite loop of horror, Natalie’s haunted time as a junior dev & many, many more.

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FireHydrant – The reliability platform for every developer. Incidents impact everyone, not just SREs. FireHydrant gives teams the tools to maintain service catalogs, respond to incidents, communicate through status pages, and learn with retrospectives. Small teams up to 10 people can get started for free with all FireHydrant features included. No credit card required to sign up. Learn more at firehydrant.com/

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Dee Kitchen – X
Mat Ryer – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Kris Brandow – GitHub, X
Natalie Pistunovich – GitHub, X
Johnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, X

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Who owns our code? Oct 20, 2022

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In this episode, we’re joined by tech Lawyer Luis Villa to explore the question, who owns code? The company, the engineer, the team? What about when you’re using AI, Machine learning, GitHub Copilot… is that still your code?

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FireHydrant – The reliability platform for every developer. Incidents impact everyone, not just SREs. FireHydrant gives teams the tools to maintain service catalogs, respond to incidents, communicate through status pages, and learn with retrospectives. Small teams up to 10 people can get started for free with all FireHydrant features included. No credit card required to sign up. Learn more at firehydrant.com/
Honeycomb – Guess less, know more. When production is running slow, it’s hard to know where problems originate: is it your application code, users, or the underlying systems? With Honeycomb you get a fast, unified, and clear understanding of the one thing driving your business: production. Join the swarm and try Honeycomb free today at honeycomb.io/changelog

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Luis Villa – Website, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Angelica Hill – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Natalie Pistunovich – GitHub, X
Kris Brandow – GitHub, X

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Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Hacking with Go: Part 2 Oct 13, 2022

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We’re once again exploring hacking in Go from the eyes of security researchers. This time, Natalie & Ian are joined by Ivan Kwiatkowski (a.k.a. Justice Rage)!

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FireHydrant – The reliability platform for every developer. Incidents impact everyone, not just SREs. FireHydrant gives teams the tools to maintain service catalogs, respond to incidents, communicate through status pages, and learn with retrospectives. Small teams up to 10 people can get started for free with all FireHydrant features included. No credit card required to sign up. Learn more at firehydrant.com/
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Ivan Kwiatkowski – GitHub, Mastodon, X
Natalie Pistunovich – GitHub, X
Ian Lopshire – GitHub, X

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Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

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