Go Archives - The Iron.io Blog https://blog.iron.io/tag/go/ Scalable serverless application tools to run background tasks with Docker containers and manage messaging queues with cloud elasticity and handheld customer support. Thu, 03 Aug 2023 13:12:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://blog.iron.io/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/cropped-iron-avatar-1-32x32.png Go Archives - The Iron.io Blog https://blog.iron.io/tag/go/ 32 32 Four and a Half Years of Go in Production at goto Chicago 2016 https://blog.iron.io/four-half-years-go-production-goto-chicago-2016/ https://blog.iron.io/four-half-years-go-production-goto-chicago-2016/#respond Tue, 24 May 2016 16:26:33 +0000 https://www.iron.io/?p=6195 Travis Reeder, CTO and co-founder of Iron.io, gave a talk at Goto Chicago 2016 discussing Iron.io’s early migration to Go, why we changed our infrastructure and the benefits it has brought to us. One of the questions that always comes up after telling people we migrated to Go is: “Why not Ruby?” Some people were…

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]]> https://blog.iron.io/gopherfest-summer-2016-recap/feed/ 0 Best practices for ElePHPants coding in Go https://blog.iron.io/best-practices-for-elephpants-coding-in-go/ https://blog.iron.io/best-practices-for-elephpants-coding-in-go/#respond Mon, 30 Nov 2015 23:05:23 +0000 http://ironio2016.wpengine.com//blog/?p=1133 Thanks to Guido da Rozza for the base image CC BY 2.0 I’ve often coded in PHP. Recently, I realized that when I code in Go, it’s easier to spot my PHPisms. After weeks of cleaning them up, it only takes a day to fry my brain with them again. I’m sure I’m not the…

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]]> https://blog.iron.io/best-practices-for-elephpants-coding-in-go/feed/ 0 #EastBayGo: Pareto Efficiencies and AOP with GoWeave https://blog.iron.io/eastbaygo-pareto-efficiencies-and-aop-with-goweave/ https://blog.iron.io/eastbaygo-pareto-efficiencies-and-aop-with-goweave/#respond Fri, 30 Oct 2015 04:01:39 +0000 http://ironio2016.wpengine.com//blog/?p=1107 Special thanks to James Daisa for the base image! CC BY 2.0 The other night we headed over to the TurnItIn offices to get nerdy about Go. They hosted the first speaker-led event for the EastBayGo group. Full disclosure: I was one of the speakers! The Talks The Easiest Way to Develop with Go My talk…

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]]> https://blog.iron.io/eastbaygo-pareto-efficiencies-and-aop-with-goweave/feed/ 0 #GoSF: Identity, Safe Secrets, and IoT Friendly Languages https://blog.iron.io/gosf-identity-safe-secrets-and-iot-friendly-languages/ https://blog.iron.io/gosf-identity-safe-secrets-and-iot-friendly-languages/#comments Fri, 23 Oct 2015 03:57:22 +0000 http://ironio2016.wpengine.com//blog/?p=1105 The Go gopher was designed by Renee French. CC BY 3.0 US Last night’s meetup, which was hosted by Betable, included two presentations and two lightning talks rounding out a solid evening for the GoSF group. Topics included identity on the web, safe storage of tokens (beyond ENV vars), and even the debut of a…

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]]> https://blog.iron.io/gosf-identity-safe-secrets-and-iot-friendly-languages/feed/ 2 Notes from Gotham Go https://blog.iron.io/notes-from-gotham-go/ https://blog.iron.io/notes-from-gotham-go/#respond Tue, 06 Oct 2015 03:48:39 +0000 http://ironio2016.wpengine.com//blog/?p=1099 Last week, I had the pleasure of joining gophers at Gotham Go. It was a incredibly dense single day of information. What follows is a quick impression of each talk, along with links to more detailed material. Special thanks to Peggy Li for tossing her notes on github! UPDATE: VODs are appearing online now. You…

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]]> https://blog.iron.io/notes-from-gotham-go/feed/ 0 The Easiest Way to Develop with Go — Introducing a Docker Based Go Tool https://blog.iron.io/the-easiest-way-to-develop-with-go%e2%80%8a-%e2%80%8aintroducing-a-docker-based-go-tool/ https://blog.iron.io/the-easiest-way-to-develop-with-go%e2%80%8a-%e2%80%8aintroducing-a-docker-based-go-tool/#respond Sat, 29 Aug 2015 22:52:06 +0000 http://ironio2016.wpengine.com//blog/?p=1081 Overview Via Medium While trying to make a drop-dead simple example for running Go programs on IronWorker, I realized there’s just no simple way for us to point someone at an example repo with Go code and have them up and running in a few minutes. This can be done in other languages fairly easily…

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]]> https://blog.iron.io/the-easiest-way-to-develop-with-go%e2%80%8a-%e2%80%8aintroducing-a-docker-based-go-tool/feed/ 0 An Easier Way to Create Tiny Golang Docker Images https://blog.iron.io/an-easier-way-to-create-tiny-golang-docker-images/ https://blog.iron.io/an-easier-way-to-create-tiny-golang-docker-images/#comments Fri, 31 Jul 2015 23:50:44 +0000 http://ironio2016.wpengine.com//blog/?p=1030 Overview Atlassian just posted a blog post about creating Static Go binaries with Docker on OSX which shows how to make a tiny little Docker image (~6MB total) with your Go program inside. When I read it, I thought “this is cool… but way too complicated”. I’ve been using Docker a lot lately and knew…

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