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Drive in the true real-time functionality to your app with WebSockets in Go. In out post, we explain what WebSockets are and how to add them to your app.

In this article, I'll describe how I implemented German string and the challenges of doing so in Rust. Specifically, I'll examine how to enable shared ownership for such data structure. Providing unique ownership is relatively trivial, and there is already a nicely written tutorial from the Rustonomicon teaching you how to [implement a `Vec`], which is not much different from a `String`. But first, let's talk about the concept of German string.

How to write a generic collection type in Go: 2 wrong ways and the right way.

An exploration of Go's adoption at Google from the perspective of an SRE and early adopter, detailing the challenges and milestones of integrating Go into production systems.

Videos from all of our great GopherCon UK speakers, recorded in August 2024.

Map is a built-in type that acts as a key-value storage. Unlike arrays where you’re stuck with keys as increasing indices like 0, 1, 2, and so on, with maps, the key can be any comparable type.

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Due to recent work circumstances, I’ve been exposed heavily to reading documentation written in Chinese (中文文档). As someone who grew up in…

Identify and fix common JavaScript memory leaks (Node.js and Deno.js)

I share the story of a frustrating debugging journey with a Rust application that was migrated to Kubernetes. Everything seemed fine until a suspected memory leak caused our application to scale uncontrollably. I dove deep into tracing memory usage with eBPF, heaptrack, and jemalloc profiling tools. The real twist came when I discovered that the memory leak was a phantom menace - a misinterpretation of Kubernetes memory metrics rather than a genuine issue. This post details the steps I took, the tools I used, and the lessons I learned about problem-solving, metric accuracy, and effective debugging in containerized environments.

Shows how much the performance of Go has improved from version 1.0 through to 1.22 (including PGO) -- in its compiler, runtime, and libraries.

In the One Billion Row Challenge, the task is to write a program capable of reading an 1-billion-line file (with around 13GB), process and aggregate temperature readings from various weather stations, and present a report of the results on console. In this article, I share my experience attempting the challenge with Golang, providing the details of how I achieved 1.96 seconds.

Advice for new Go programmers

A supplementary post to my GopherConAU 2023 talk of the same title.

This is my closing talk ( video ) from the GopherConAU conference in Sydney, given November 10, 2023, the 14th anniversary of Go being lau...

Although I'm a fan of Go, it's not all roses and sunshine. In this video, I explain 10 things about the language I don't like.0:00 Intro1:12 0. Go's error h...

I’m going to show you how I took a very simple program and made it run almost 5 times faster, with very minimal adjustments. You may know…

The article discusses about Golang memory allocation inside structs and how it can be optimized for better performance.

You may not have seen these techniques before, as I specifically developed them for my team’s use.