Avoiding high GC overhead with large heaps
The Go Garbage Collector (GC) works exceptionally well when the amount of memory allocated is relatively small, but with larger heap sizes the GC can end up using considerable amounts of CPU.
Using Go in Devops
== Using Go for DevOps == This post is aiming to provide a new angle on using Go. Don’t expect code snippets or learning a new thing, but rather be open for a new perspective, and share this with your favorite SysOps/DevOps/Observability Engineers who are considering new so...
Computing and plotting π with Gonum and a zest of Monte Carlo
Today we will see how we can compute π with a technique called Monte Carlo. Wikipedia, the ultimate source of truth in the (known) universe has this to say about Monte Carlo:
GPIOs and Go
Go Advent, Dec. 22, 2018 Recently, I decided that I needed a small heads up display for import things I kept forgetting, like the time until an event started or number of unread emails in my inbox.
Members, Methods, and Interfaces
Opaque Datatypes Considered Awesome I am periodically reminded that many people don’t realize that C actually allows the creation of opaque data types. This is a possibly-surprising side effect of the option of never completing a type.
Introducing Glot the plotting library for Golang
Go is an open source programming language that makes it easy to build simple, reliable, and efficient software. It provides an expressive syntax with its lightweight type system and comes with concurrency as a built-in feature at the language level.
LLVM IR and Go
In this post, we’ll look at how to build Go programs – such as compilers and static analysis tools – that interact with the LLVM compiler framework using the LLVM IR assembly language.
Goroutine Leaks - The Abandoned Receivers
Introduction Goroutine Leaks are a common cause of memory leaks in Go programs. In my previous post, I presented an introduction to Goroutine leaks and provided one example of a common mistake that many Go developers make. Continuing that work, this post presents another scenario...
Watermill v0.2.0 released
Let me start by thanking all contributors for feedback on Watermill - it drives us to add new features. Thanks! It’s been almost a month since the initial release of Watermill. However, it’s just the beginning and we are still working hard to ship new features. What i...
Go and Apache Arrow: building blocks for data science
Today we will see how Apache Arrow could be useful for data science, or – really – a lot of analysis workloads. Lingua franca In Data Science and in many scientific fields, the lingua franca is Python.