Go, explained the way it actually works.
I’m Phuong Le, a software engineer at VictoriaMetrics building VictoriaLogs. I’m also the author of The Anatomy of Go, where we discuss Go in depth.
This is where I try to explain things as clearly as I possibly can: Go, backend engineering, and the systems underneath.
How Go's Built-in Map Works with Swiss Tables
If you’re interested in how Go’s built-in map works, I wrote a full article about it for the VictoriaMetrics blog: How Go’s Built-in Map …
Understanding Go's sync.Map from API to hash trie
If you’re interested in how sync.Map works, I wrote a full article about it for the VictoriaMetrics blog: Understanding Go’s sync.Map from …
sync.Pool in Go explained & avoid the heap allocation mistake
The discussion in this video isn’t only about the basics of sync.Pool, but also about how it works at a higher level. How to avoid heap …
Data races and the memory model in Go
We write a value in one goroutine and read it in another. Nothing crashes, and the value is there. It looks like our code works. We actually got …
How Go detects struct copies with sync.noCopy
If you have read the source code of the sync package, you may have noticed that several structs contain an unusual field of type noCopy, such as …
Go runtime metrics: CPU, GC, memory, scheduler
Go exposes many runtime metrics through runtime/metrics, and many metrics clients (Prometheus, VictoriaMetrics) use it to export Go runtime stats from …
SIGHUP signal for configuration reloads
Many applications, including Go applications by default, respond to three signals for termination: SIGTERM, SIGINT, and SIGHUP. Among these, SIGHUP …
Select and for range on Go channels
In Go channels from first principles, we went through one channel at a time: send, receive, close, and what buffered, nil, and closed channels do. Our …
Go channels from first principles
In Goroutines 101: A basic walkthrough, we went through goroutines, how they run on OS threads, and what GOMAXPROCS does. Those examples did not show …
Goroutines 101: A basic walkthrough
Go makes concurrency much easier than most other languages. In Java, you decide between platform threads, virtual threads, and the thread pools of …
