Ben Johnson, creator of BoltDB, joined the show to talk about NoSQL vs. Sql databases, tradeoffs between the two, and choosing one over the other. We also talk about Ben’s Secret Lives of Data project, visualizing data structures, and go over his motivation and plans for his blog post series “Go Walkthrough” of the Go standard library.

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Featuring:

Ben Johnson – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Erik St. Martin – Twitter, GitHub
Carlisia Thompson – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
Brian Ketelsen – Twitter, GitHub

Show Notes:

Interesting Go Projects and News

Noms: decentralized database based on ideas from Git
upper.io/db.v2: Magic-free ORM-like package for Go

Free Software Friday

Brian - Minikube: Run Kubernetes locally and Quilt: deploy and network containers
Carlisia - Stow: symlink manager
Ben - Kelsey Hightower
Erik - Archtrike: An Arch Linux repository for security professionals and enthusiasts and Request for Commits

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

The Go Standard Library 01:05:50 Share

Go Time: Golang, Software Engineering

Shownotes Transcript

The Go Standard Library