• ▲ comment posted on Lessons from Building and Scaling Reddit's Ad Serving Platform with Go #gophercon2018 #reddit by tomf 2047 days ago ▼

    Didn't know reddit used Go, everyone seems to now!


    TLDR;

    1. Use a framework/toolkit

    2. Go makes rapid iteration easy and safe

    3. Distributed tracing with Thrift and Go is hard

    4. Use deadlines within and across services

    5. Use load testing and benchmarking