The Importance of Boundaries in Go Packages

Ben Johnson, creator of BoltDB, joined the show to talk about NoSQL vs. Sql databases, tradeoffs between the two, and choosing one over the other. We also talk about Ben’s Secret Lives of Data project, visualizing data structures, and go over his motivation and plans for his blog post series “Go Walkthrough” of the Go standard library.

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Featuring:

• Ben Johnson – Website, GitHub, X
• Erik St. Martin – GitHub, X
• Carlisia Thompson – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Brian Ketelsen – GitHub, X

Show Notes:

• Bolt DB
• The Secret Lives of Data
• Ben’s Go Walkthrough blog series on Medium
• Go Walkthrough: encoding package
• Go Walkthrough: bytes + strings packages
• Go Walkthrough: io package
• Standard Package Layout
• Building WTF Dial
• Clean Code (book)
• The Pragmatic Programmer (bool)
• Column-oriented DBMS
• Bleve: full-text search and indexing for Go
• #boltdb channel on Gophers Slack
• omnominator
• VimGolf

Interesting Go Projects and News

• Noms: decentralized database based on ideas from Git
• upper.io/db.v2: Magic-free ORM-like package for Go

Free Software Friday

• Brian ­- Minikube: Run Kubernetes locally and Quilt: deploy and network containers
• Carlisia - Stow: symlink manager
• Ben - Kelsey Hightower
• Erik - Archtrike: An Arch Linux repository for security professionals and enthusiasts and Request for Commits

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