Go Kit, Dependency Management, Microservices (Go Time #25)

Peter Bourgon joined the show to talk about Go kit, microservices, Go in the enterprise, dependency management, and writing Go packages.

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Featuring:

• Peter Bourgon – GitHub, X
• Erik St. Martin – GitHub, X
• Carlisia Campos – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X
• Scott Mansfield – GitHub, X

Show Notes:

• The panel shared that time they all used Go Channels incorrectly
• Go kit is a distributed programming toolkit for building microservices in large organizations. We solve common problems in distributed systems, so you can focus on your business logic.
• Go best practices, six years in
• Go in the Modern Enterprise and Go Kit
• Peter mentioned So you want to write a package manager which is a DEEP article, estimated at 50 minutes to read

Free Software Friday

• Scott — zetcd lets you serve zookeeper with etcd
• Erik — Pelikan is Twitter’s unified cache backend
• Peter — The Platinum Searcher is a code search tool similar to ack and the_silver_searcher(ag). It supports multi platforms and multi encodings.

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