Making Go more efficient (Go Time #260)

Mat invites Bartłomiej Płotka, Kemal Akkoyun & Christian Simon to discuss how to make Go code more efficient through modern observability practices.

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Featuring:

• Bartlomiej Płotka – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
• Kemal Akkoyun – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
• Christian Simon – X
• Mat Ryer – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X

Show Notes:

• Bartek’s “Efficient Go” Book
• Vitess Benchmark
• Tools for Monitoring Applications Logs
• Prometheus library for Go
• Profiling Go Programs
• pprof tool (also available in go tool pprof)
• pkg.go.dev/net/http/pprof
• pkg.go.dev/runtime/pprof
• Building a Go Profiler using Go
• Liz Rice on eBPF
• Arena proposal

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!