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Scott Mansfield on Go at Netflix

Go Time: Golang, Software Engineering

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Go's Garbage Collection Worked Out Well for You

Netflix's Memcache.d proxy and server is written in Go, a new language for the company. It was an interesting choice of language because Netflix is pretty much an all-java shop. A lot of people are still very twitchy about Go's garbage collection. "We don't really notice because there are only a couple of hundred microseconds," he says.

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