Go Time: Golang, Software Engineering Go Kit, Dependency Management, Microservices
Dec 13, 2016
01:26:55
Peter Bourgon joined the show to talk about Go kit, microservices, Go in the enterprise, dependency management, and writing Go packages.
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Featuring:
- Peter Bourgon – GitHub, X
- Erik St. Martin – GitHub, X
- Carlisia Thompson – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Scott Mansfield – GitHub, X
Show Notes:
- The panel shared that time they all used Go Channels incorrectly
- Go kit is a distributed programming toolkit for building microservices in large organizations. We solve common problems in distributed systems, so you can focus on your business logic.
- Go best practices, six years in
- Go in the Modern Enterprise and Go Kit
- Peter mentioned So you want to write a package manager which is a DEEP article, estimated at 50 minutes to read
Free Software Friday
- Scott — zetcd lets you serve zookeeper with etcd
- Erik — Pelikan is Twitter’s unified cache backend
- Peter — The Platinum Searcher is a code search tool similar to
ackandthe_silver_searcher(ag). It supports multi platforms and multi encodings.
Go source code looks particularly good when displayed in Go fonts.
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!