Garbage collection is considered one of the more shark-infested waters of programming, but in this post, I’ll give you a nice kiddie pool to paddle around in. (There may still be sharks in it, but at least it will be shallower.)
Source: Baby's First Garbage Collector, an article by Bob Nystrom.
When we started Goliath, no one on the team knew Go beyond the experiments we ran to validate that Go would be a better choice for us than our other options. Today, all of our backend and full-stack engineers write Go, and our incremental delivery of Goliath has vaulted us over a big milestone: More than 500,000 lines of Go now running in production. This seemed like a good point to reflect on Go itself.
Source: Half a million lines of Go, an article by Kevin Dangoor.
Managing resources for containers in a Kubernetes cluster is very important.
The thing is, it can be a very tedious job, as every service might have different requirements.
Source: Managing Kubernetes Resources for Containers, an article by Shimon Tolts.
Development teams are under pressure. Releases must be delivered on time. Coding and quality standards must be met. And errors are not an option. That's why development teams use static analysis.
Source: Python Static Analysis Tools.
Let's face facts. Git is not fun. Git is not friendly. No. It's just infuriatingly useful, so we're stuck with it. But what if you could make git more friendly? More convenient? Would that make your day a little less stressful?
Source: Top Ten Git Tips & Tricks, an article by Julie Kent.