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October 21, 2025
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Getting Friendly With CPU Caches
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Sep 14, 2013
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14 min read
Pool Go Routines To Process Task Oriented Work
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 …
Sep 10, 2013
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6 min read
Slices of Slices of Slices in Go
I am working on building code to load polygons for the different Marine Forecast areas in the United States. These polygons need to be stored in MongoDB and there is a …
Sep 7, 2013
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23 min read
Running Go Programs In IronWorker
Introduction
Iron.io has a product called IronWorker which provides a task oriented Linux container that you can run your programs inside. If you are not sure what I …
Sep 4, 2013
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9 min read
Timer Routines And Graceful Shutdowns In Go
In my Outcast data server I have several data retrieval jobs that run using different go routines. Each routine wakes up on a set interval. The most complex job is the …
Aug 31, 2013
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7 min read
Using CGO with Pkg-Config And Custom Dynamic Library Locations
Earlier in the month I wrote a post about using C Dynamic Libraries in Go Programs. The article built a dynamic library in C and created a Go program that used it. The …
Aug 28, 2013
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12 min read
Organizing Code to Support Go Get
For those of you who are like me, trying to learn the Mac and Linux operating systems, Golang programming and deployment constructs all at the same time, I feel your …
Aug 26, 2013
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7 min read
Collections Of Unknown Length in Go
If you are coming to Go after using a programming language like C# or Java, the first thing you will discover is that there are no traditional collection types like List …
Aug 20, 2013
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10 min read
Using C Dynamic Libraries In Go Programs
My son and I were having fun last weekend building a console based game in Go. I was recreating a game from my youth, back when I was programming on a Kaypro II.
I loved …
Aug 15, 2013
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11 min read
Understanding Slices in Go Programming
Since I started programming in Go the concept and use of slices has been confusing. This is something completely new to me. They look like an array, and feel like an …