Honeycomb, Complex Systems, Saving Sanity

Go Time: Golang, Software Engineering

Charity Majors joined the show to talk about debugging complex systems, using go to save one’s sanity, hiring smart people who can learn, and collectively working to make “on-call” life not miserable.

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Featuring:

• Charity Majors – Website, GitHub, X
• Erik St. Martin – GitHub, X
• Carlisia Thompson – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Brian Ketelsen – GitHub, X

Show Notes:

Honeycomb :: Powerful, Exploratory Learning with Richer Data

go package libhoney (it’s the APM of the future!)

How We Moved Our API From Ruby to Go and Saved Our Sanity

CHARITY.WTF

Database Reliability Engineering book

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Interesting Go Projects and News

Charity wants to give big shout outs (shouts out?) to Naitik Shah and Matt Silverlock!

Go 1.8 is released

Implementing a Debugger: The Fundamentals

Building a Go Debugger

Gobot - 1.2 Released

Pixterm - Draw images in your ANSI terminal with true color

1.8 Release Parties Everywhere

Change to Go CoC

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Free Software Friday!

Each week on the show we give a shout out to an open source project or community that’s made an impact in our day to day developer lives.

• Brian - Eclipse Che
• Erik - Kube-Lego
• Carlisia - Visual Studio Code

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!