As you know if you read my blog, I have been building a set of new utility packages so I can start developing an application server I need for a new project. I am brand new to Go and the Mac OS. Needless to say it has been one hell of an education over the past month. But I don’t miss Windows or C# at all. I made some progress in my coding and wanted to build documentation for the code.

Check out my new installtion document: https://www.ardanlabs.com/blog/2016/05/installing-go-and-your-workspace.html I removed the sections about gocode and GDB. These are not necessary any longer. I also added links for more editors. Windows This is a great post by Wade Wegner for installing Go on your Windows Machine: http://www.wadewegner.com/2014/12/easy-go-programming-setup-for-windows/ Mac OS XThe following instructions will guide you through installing Go on your Mac. Step 1: Download Go Open your favorite browser and go to the following website:

For the past 20 years I have been writing server based and application software on the Microsoft stack. First in C/C++ leveraging the Win32 API and then in C# when .Net first was released. Over the past few months I have realized that trying to build scalable code on the Microsoft stack is becoming impossible. Why, Technology and Cost!! Let’s start with the licensing. Luckily I was accepted into the Bizspark program.

After working in Go for some time now, I learned how to use an unbuffered channel to build a pool of goroutines. I like this implementation better than what is implemented in this post.  That being said, this post still has value in what it describes. https://github.com/goinggo/work Introduction In my world of server development thread pooling has been the key to building robust code on the Microsoft stack.