Go 1.9 is introducing profiler labels, a way to add arbitrary key-values to the samples collected by the CPU profiler. CPU profilers collect and output hot spots where the CPU spent most time in when executing. A typical CPU profiler output is primarily reports the location of th...
I’ve been working with DigitalOcean, Heroku and AWS for some years now. Recently, I decided to give GCE (Google Compute Engine), and, more specifically, GKE (Google Container Engine) a try. In this post I intend to show a few things I learned and/or struggled with. SSL and...
Go provides several pprof profiles out of thet box to gather profiling data from Go programs. The builtin profiles provided by the runtime/pprof package: profile: CPU profile determines where a program spends its time while actively consuming CPU cycles (as opposed while sleeping...
Prelude These are good posts to read first to better understand the material presented in this post: Index of the four part series: Language Mechanics On Stacks And Pointers Language Mechanics On Escape Analysis Language Mechanics On Memory Profiling Design Philosophy On Data And...
Most Go binaries come without any man page. The tool goman fills this gap. If the corresponding project includes a decent README file (and most projects do), goman find this README file and displays it on the terminal.
In a previous blog series I’ve talked about how to work with a gRPC backend from the GopherJS world. It relies on the gRPC-gateway which is a great piece of tech, but unfortunately carries a couple of downsides: Clients don’t know what types are used - the interface i...
Prelude This is the final post in a four part series discussing the mechanics and design behind pointers, stacks, heaps, escape analysis and value/pointer semantics in Go. This post focuses on data and the design philosophies of applying value/pointer semantics in your code. Inde...
Update Docker Cloud is being discontinued. For an alternative easy app deployment, check my new post on automatic app deployment. Furthermore, I would nowadays recommend Hetzner Cloud over Scaleway. Scaleway was running out of instances last time I tried using them, and Hetzner&r...