The magic of a trace

Go Time: Golang, Software Engineering

Felix Geisendörfer & Michael Knyszek join Natalie to discuss Go execution traces: why they’re awesome, common use cases, how they’ve gotten better of late & more.

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Featuring:

• Felix Geisendörfer – Twitter, GitHub, Website
• Michael Knyszek – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, Website
• Natalie Pistunovich – Twitter, GitHub

Show Notes:

• Making Go more efficient (Go Time #260)
• More powerful Go execution traces

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Capitoli

1. It's Go Time! (00:00:00)

2. Felix Geisendörfer (00:00:44)

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3. Michael Knyszek (00:03:16)

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4. Fitting the ecosystem (00:05:33)

5. Sponsor: Boot.dev (00:13:06)

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6. Changes in best practices (00:15:13)

7. Common trace use cases (00:23:15)

8. Interpreting results (00:30:04)

9. AI (obligatory) (00:39:58)

10. Unpopular Opinions! (00:43:13)

11. Michael's unpop (00:43:54)

12. Felix's unpop (00:45:19)

13. Natalie's unpop (00:46:42)

14. Outro (00:48:17)