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

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 – Twitter, GitHubErik St. Martin – Twitter, GitHubCarlisia Thompson – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedInBrian Ketelsen – Twitter, GitHub

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!

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