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Apache Beam and Google Dataflow in Go

Overview Apache Beam (batch and stream) is a powerful tool for handling embarrassingly parallel workloads. It is a evolution of Google’s Flume, which provides batch and streaming data processing based on the MapReduce concepts.

The Relationship Between Interfaces and Reflection

Interfaces are one of the fundamental tools for abstraction in Go. Interfaces store type information when assigned a value. Reflection is a method of examining type and value information at runtime.

Debugging with Mozilla rr project and GoLand

Debuggers. Traditionally they are used to find complex bugs and reason about how they happen. But what if you cannot explain why some changes happen between steps?

Exploring byte parsing APIs in Go

Several years ago, I began exploring Linux’s Netlink inter-process communication interface. Netlink is used for retrieving information from the Linux kernel, and in order to cross the kernel boundary, information is typically packed into Netlink attributes.

Bringing Sanity to your Dependencies with Go Modules and Athens

As many of us know, Go version 1.11 introduced Go Modules, a brand new dependency management system. A Little Bit About Modules Before 1.11, our dependencies were a collection of Go packages with a single version number attached to all of them.

gpython: a Python interpreter written in Go "batteries not included"

Gpython is a Python 3.4 interpreter written in Go. This is the story of how it came to be, how it works and where it is going.