Making Go more efficient

Go Time: Golang, Software Engineering

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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Featuring:

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

Show Notes:

• 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

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Chương

1. Opener (00:00:00)

2. Sponsor: Sourcegraph (00:00:32)

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3. It's Go Time! (00:02:15)

4. Welcome, everyone! (00:03:05)

5. Getting to know our guests (00:04:19)

6. Our topic: making Go more efficient! (00:06:07)

7. How to spot when more efficiency is needed (00:09:45)

8. How to select metrics to measure (00:12:21)

9. How often to do a performance check (00:16:23)

10. Sponsor: Ship It! (00:23:13)

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11. Kemal drops the first unpop of the show (00:24:42)

12. Setting a budget for efficiency testing? (00:26:07)

13. The cost of observing data in production (00:30:15)

14. The tradeoff between features & perf (00:33:09)

15. There goes my hero... watch him as he goes (00:36:50)

16. Go vs other langs wrt observability (00:40:58)

17. Making Go easier/better to profile (00:43:43)

18. What is eBPF? (00:46:26)

19. It's time for Unpopular Opinions! (00:49:47)

20. Mat's very serious unpop (00:50:22)

21. Mat's other unpop (00:50:39)

22. Bartek's unpop (00:51:17)

23. Christian's unpop (00:54:58)

24. Kemal's unpop (00:55:39)

25. Kemal's "real" unpop (00:58:51)

26. Time to Go! (00:59:38)

27. Outro (++ bonus!) (01:00:29)

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