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I wonder if Brad has any idea how many lives he's affected. At some point in 2013, I was a Linux sysadmin with 20 years of work under my belt and rapidly burni

I wonder if Brad has any idea how many lives he's affected. At some point in 2013, I was a Linux sysadmin with 20 years of work under my belt and rapidly burning out, seeing the DevOps movement approach and feeling outmoded. I couldn't code. I saw a post here on HN about Brad's rewriting of Google's download system in Go and was intrigued. That night, almost out of a job and feeling like I had nothing left to lose, I sat down and started to learn Go. Hoping to write a control system for a high altitude balloon, I started writing a little every night after work. Soon, I attended The first Gophercon and really fell in love. From there, doors started opening for me. I left the sysadmin job and got a job as a DevOps engineer. Wrote more and more Go. Better jobs and better pay followed. Job interviews became something to look forward to, not fear. Anyway, it was Brad's blog entry that inspired me and totally changed my life. Things are amazing today. Thanks, Brad.

harryf 7y ago
I remember this giant slide deck he presented at OSCON back in 2004 (guess) about scaling LiveJournal with MySQL, memcached etc. IIRC it was the first real “template” for how to scaling on an open source stack, and it massively benefitted the team and company I was working for at the time. Edit: this looks like one of the versions of that slide deck - http://www.danga.com/words/2004_lisa/lisa04.pdf http://www.danga.com/words/2004_lisa/lisa04.pdf
neop1x 7y ago
I used to work in C and PHP before. Then decided to look at Go, despite not liking big binaries it produces (at the first sight), I immediately fell in love. Go made programming fun for me again! Thanks everyone involved making Go happen. It has some drawbacks (like limited OOP) but you always have to trade something for something else. I like it as it is and it is my primary language I write the code in now.

harryf 7y ago

I remember this giant slide deck he presented at OSCON back in 2004 (guess) about scaling LiveJournal with MySQL, memcached etc. IIRC it was the first real “template” for how to scaling on an open source stack, and it massively benefitted the team and company I was working for at the time. Edit: this looks like one of the versions of that slide deck - http://www.danga.com/words/2004_lisa/lisa04.pdf http://www.danga.com/words/2004_lisa/lisa04.pdf

neop1x 7y ago

I used to work in C and PHP before. Then decided to look at Go, despite not liking big binaries it produces (at the first sight), I immediately fell in love. Go made programming fun for me again! Thanks everyone involved making Go happen. It has some drawbacks (like limited OOP) but you always have to trade something for something else. I like it as it is and it is my primary language I write the code in now.