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Honeycomb, Complex Systems, Saving Sanity (Go Time #35)

February 23, 2017 56:15 54.5 MB Downloads: 0

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

Notes and Links

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


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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