Author Archives: Dan Siemon

Cloud Native Day Kicks Off

Go 1.7

Today I rebuilt one of our micro-services using Go 1.7.

1.7’s new SSA compiler produces faster code but I was surprised to see this much improvement. This isn’t a perfect comparison – a couple of library dependencies got updated as well and Kubernetes may have put the containers on different machines in the cluster.

Go 1.7 and SSA

Go 1.7 is out. One of the big features is the new SSA based compiler. The article below describes some of the tooling around this new feature.

Looking at your program’s structure in Go 1.7

The Go project does a great job of tooling.

Random Algorithms

http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2855183

Intel Hyperscan

https://01.org/hyperscan

Hadn’t seen this before. Looks interesting.

Vim Shortcuts

Original source. A nice way to visualize Vim shortcuts.

Linux Perf Tools

It’s a complicated world. Original location.

Numbers to Plan By

https://xkcd.com/1205/

Layers

I love this diagram. Source.

P4 Workshop Presentations

If you into networking or specifically P4 you should take a look at the recent P4 workshop presentations.

http://p4.org/p4-workshop-2016/