Go Kit, Dependency Management, Microservices

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 (https://github.com/peterbourgon), X (https://x.com/peterbourgon) • Erik St. Martin – GitHub (https://github.com/erikstmartin), X (https://x.com/erikstmartin) • Carlisia Thompson – GitHub (https://github.com/carlisia), LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/carlisia), X (https://x.com/carlisia) • Scott Mansfield – GitHub (https://github.com/scottmansfield), X (https://x.com/sgmansfield)

Show Notes:

• The panel shared that time they all used Go Channels (https://gobyexample.com/channels) incorrectly

• Go kit (https://gokit.io/) 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 (https://peter.bourgon.org/go-best-practices-2016/)

• Go in the Modern Enterprise and Go Kit (https://changelog.com/podcast/163)

• Peter mentioned So you want to write a package manager (https://medium.com/@sdboyer/so-you-want-to-write-a-package-manager-4ae9c17d9527#.mx8gpqdxl) which is a DEEP article, estimated at 50 minutes to read

Free Software Friday

• Scott — zetcd (https://github.com/coreos/zetcd) lets you serve zookeeper with etcd

• Erik — Pelikan (https://github.com/twitter/pelikan) is Twitter’s unified cache backend

• Peter — The Platinum Searcher (https://github.com/monochromegane/the_platinum_searcher) is a code search tool similar to ack and the_silver_searcher(ag). It supports multi platforms and multi encodings.

Go source code looks particularly good when displayed in Go fonts (https://blog.golang.org/go-fonts).

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome! (https://github.com/thechangelog/show-notes/blob/master/gotime/go-time-25.md)