Foundations of Go performance

Go Time: Golang, Software Engineering

In the first of a multi-part series, Ian & Johnny are joined by Miriah Peterson & Bryan Boreham to peel back the first layer of the things that matter when it comes to the performance of your Go programs.

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Featuring:

• Miriah Peterson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Bryan Boreham – X
• Johnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, X
• Ian Lopshire – GitHub, X

Show Notes:

• The return of Ship it!

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

פרקים

1. It's Go Time (Ship It!) (00:00:00)

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2. Meet the guests (00:01:24)

3. Setting the stage (00:03:18)

4. Is Go the problem? (00:04:44)

5. Why is THIS the bottleneck? (00:09:30)

6. The expectations (00:10:37)

7. Mechanical sympathy (00:13:58)

8. pprof (00:20:36)

9. Knowing if the function is optimized (00:24:48)

10. One change at a time (00:30:46)

11. Memory definitions (00:32:31)

12. Garbage collection (00:37:51)

13. When to use pointers (00:42:49)

14. Maps (00:49:18)

15. Unpopular opinions! (00:52:52)

16. Mariah's unpop (00:53:16)

17. Bryan's unpop (00:55:03)

18. Johnny's unpop (00:57:17)

19. Outro (Ship It!) (00:58:51)

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