Go - Ali Hamidi

Visualizing Go Concurrency

Came across this great blog post that visualized Go concurrency and various aspects of Goroutines in general. Definitely worth checking out if you're at all interested in Go.

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Projectionist for Go

I've been using Vim exclusively for all of my Go development work for the past year or so and over that time I've slowly been customizing my setup. There are a number of essential plugins, including Vim-go and YouCompleteMe, but after recently working on a Rails project I encountered Vim-rails

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Local CI with GoConvey

When I first checked out GoConvey, the project I was working on at the time had tests that took upwards of 30s to complete, which resulted in an incredibly frustrating experience. Ultimately I just stopped using it, and wrote off GoConvey as a cool, but mostly unnecessary tool. I eventually

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Go-mapreduce

tl;dr I've put together an easy to use Map/Reduce package for Go. It manages the creation of background workers (goroutines) and the channels that connect them. Go-mapreduce go-mapreduce is a simple Go package that makes it super easy to apply the Map/Reduce pattern in Go using goroutines

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Using DynamoDB with Go

I've been looking for an excuse to use DynamoDB for awhile and I finally got a chance to this week. Previously I'd played around with it using IRB and the AWS Ruby SDK, but for my current project I'm integrating it into a Go application. Unfortunately it didn't take long

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Gopher Gala 2015

My fellow proofers and I took part in the first Gopher Gala 48 hour hackathon over the weekend (23rd - 25th of January 2015). It was loads of fun and our project turned out pretty well. We'd love to get more people working on it and hopefully turn it into

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Cross compilation of Go on OSX

My main development machine is a Macbook Pro Retina (running OSX naturally), but our production servers all run Ubuntu. The vast majority of our platform is built on Ruby, so we've never needed to consider compilation for particular platforms. I rather naively assumed that I'd just run go build, send