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Hands-On High Performance with Go

By : Bob Strecansky
Book Image

Hands-On High Performance with Go

By: Bob Strecansky

Overview of this book

Go is an easy-to-write language that is popular among developers thanks to its features such as concurrency, portability, and ability to reduce complexity. This Golang book will teach you how to construct idiomatic Go code that is reusable and highly performant. Starting with an introduction to performance concepts, you’ll understand the ideology behind Go’s performance. You’ll then learn how to effectively implement Go data structures and algorithms along with exploring data manipulation and organization to write programs for scalable software. This book covers channels and goroutines for parallelism and concurrency to write high-performance code for distributed systems. As you advance, you’ll learn how to manage memory effectively. You’ll explore the compute unified device architecture (CUDA) application programming interface (API), use containers to build Go code, and work with the Go build cache for quicker compilation. You’ll also get to grips with profiling and tracing Go code for detecting bottlenecks in your system. Finally, you’ll evaluate clusters and job queues for performance optimization and monitor the application for performance regression. By the end of this Go programming book, you’ll be able to improve existing code and fulfill customer requirements by writing efficient programs.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
1
Section 1: Learning about Performance in Go
7
Section 2: Applying Performance Concepts in Go
13
Section 3: Deploying, Monitoring, and Iterating on Go Programs with Performance in Mind

Detecting memory leaks in Go

As discussed in the Memory object allocation section of Chapter 8, Memory Management in Go, we have a myriad of tools at our disposal to view the current memory statistics for our currently executing program. In this chapter, we will also learn about profiling using the pprof tool. One of the more common Go memory leaks is the unbounded creation of goroutines. This happens frequently when you overload an unbuffered channel or you have an abstraction with a lot of concurrency spawning new goroutines that don't finish. Goroutines have a very small footprint and systems can often spawn a very large number of them, but they eventually have an upper bound that becomes taxing to find when trying to troubleshoot your program in a production environment.

In the following example, we are going to look at an unbuffered channel that has a leaky abstraction...