Scott Mansfield on Go at Netflix
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Scott Mansfield joins us this week to talk about Go at Netflix, performance, latency and caching, Rend (their memcached proxy), chaos monkey, and more.

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Featuring:

• Scott Mansfield – Twitter), GitHub)
• Erik St. Martin – Twitter), GitHub)
• Carlisia Thompson – Twitter), GitHub), LinkedIn)
• Brian Ketelsen – Twitter), GitHub)

Show Notes:

• Rend - A memcached proxy that manages data chunking and L1/L2 caches)

• Netlix chaos monkey) Note: a new version in Go is imminent

• Rob Pike’s Google I/O 2012 - Go Concurrency Patterns (video))

• How to block Forever in Go)

Interesting Go Projects and News

• GoKit tagged 0.1.0)

• Go in the Modern Enterprise: Using gokit with Peter Bourgon (podcast))

• Updates to vim-go)

• Updates to Hugo)

• Francesc’s Go Tooling in Action)

• Ed’s State of Go survey)

• #vendor channel on Gophers Slack)

• Beyond Code Season 3 (Gophercon 2015))

Free Software Friday

• Brian - Jess Frazelle’s dotfiles:0 to Awesome in one clone)

• Carlisia - Network Programming with Go)

• Scott - Go)

• Erik - unix-like reverse engineering framework and commandline tools)

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!)