Scott Mansfield on Go at Netflix

Go Time: Golang, Software Engineering

Scott Mansfield joins us this week to talk about Go at Netflix, performance, latency and caching, Rend (their memcached proxy), chaos monkey, and more.

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Featuring:

• Scott Mansfield – GitHub, X
• Erik St. Martin – GitHub, X
• Carlisia Thompson – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Brian Ketelsen – GitHub, X

Show Notes:

• Rend - A memcached proxy that manages data chunking and L1/L2 caches
• Netlix chaos monkey Note: a new version in Go is imminent
• Rob Pike’s Google I/O 2012 - Go Concurrency Patterns (video)
• How to block Forever in Go

Interesting Go Projects and News

• GoKit tagged 0.1.0
• Go in the Modern Enterprise: Using gokit with Peter Bourgon (podcast)
• Updates to vim-go
• Updates to Hugo
• Francesc’s Go Tooling in Action
• Ed’s State of Go survey
• #vendor channel on Gophers Slack
• Beyond Code Season 3 (Gophercon 2015)

Free Software Friday

• Brian - Jess Frazelle’s dotfiles:0 to Awesome in one clone
• Carlisia - Network Programming with Go
• Scott - Go
• Erik - unix-like reverse engineering framework and commandline tools

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!