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Golang

Benchmarking Go programs, part 2

There were a couple of things that didn’t make sense to me initially in terms of optimisation of Go code. I’m going to try to list some of them that I found more interesting and you should be aware of this if you’re really working hard to optimize your Go program for performance or memory usage.

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Benchmarking Go programs

Benchmarking is an important step in writing software. This may extend beyond the scope of your Go program, but attention should also be given to the Go program itself. If you’re writing APIs or if you’re implementing a parser for a specific file format - benchmarking will tell you how performant your implementation is.

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Creating a new shortcode with Hugo

For those of you not familiar with Hugo, it’s the tool with which I’m generating this blog. Hugo is a static website engine similar to Jekyll or Hexo if you’re familiar with those. You write your content in markdown format, and it generates a set of static files, from which your blog is served. It’s written in Go and it’s very fast.

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Managing configuration with Viper

Viper is a popular configuration library that’s designed with 12 factor applications in mind.

Viper is a complete configuration solution for go applications including 12 factor apps. It is designed to work within an application, and can handle all types of configuration needs and formats. Viper can be thought of as a registry for all of your applications configuration needs.

Let’s use it to provide configuration for a typical application.

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