Avoiding bloat

Go Time: Golang, Software Engineering

Egon Elbre and Roger Peppe join Mat for a conversation all about bloat (and how to avoid it). Expect talk of code bloat, binary bloat, feature bloat, and an even-more-bloated-than-usual unpopular opinion segment.

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Featuring:

• Egon Elbre – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Roger Peppe – GitHub, X
• Mat Ryer – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

• CUE lang

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

פרקים

1. Opener (00:00:00)

2. Sponsor: Sourcegraph (00:00:45)

https://info.sourcegraph.com/changelog

3. Intro (00:02:28)

4. Welcoming our guests (00:03:11)

5. What we've been working on (00:04:06)

6. What is bloat? (00:06:08)

7. Binary bloat (00:18:37)

8. Sponsor: Chronosphere (00:22:26)

https://chronosphere.io

9. TinyGo (00:24:14)

10. go fmt (00:29:48)

11. Technical debt (00:35:37)

12. Sponsor: Honeycomb (00:45:35)

https://honeycomb.io/changelog

13. Feature bloat (00:47:17)

14. Unpopular Opinions! (00:50:17)

15. Egon's unpop (00:51:05)

16. Roger's unpop (00:55:05)

17. Mat's unpop (00:59:52)

18. Goodbye! (01:02:02)

19. Outro (01:02:32)