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"In the past week I’ve rewritten a relatively large distributed system in Go" Maybe I don't have any programming talent at all, but I cannot even imagine to re

"In the past week I’ve rewritten a relatively large distributed system in Go" Maybe I don't have any programming talent at all, but I cannot even imagine to rewrite a 'large distributed system' in a week. The not-too-large distributed systems I worked with had years of thinking behind them, I could not even type in the characters of the code in a week.

jamescun 12y ago
It is a rather vauge statement and could have used some clarification; however Go does make writing network protocols very simple, and building something like a gossip protocol based system with a leader election system is doable in a week. Even quicker if you use some of the existing distributed systems libraries for Go.
- cgag 12y ago
  What does Go do that makes writing network protocols simple?
  - skj 12y ago
    Go makes it straightforward to have one program efficiently communicating with many different servers and clients. It does this by having all network IO be event-based in such a way that it's effectively tied directly into the scheduler, and then communicating between the different goroutines managing all these connections is very easy.
  - micro_cam 12y ago
    All of the HTTP, socket, encryption, compression etc libraries have a really clean, consistent design based around stackable reader and writer interfaces. This makes it really easy to combine things, swap out transport layers etc. Go routines and channels are also nice for handling concurrent requests though I find myself using mutexes more than channels for finer grained control.
thomseddon 12y ago
You obviously don't know TJ... https://github.com/visionmedia https://github.com/visionmedia http://www.quora.com/TJ-Holowaychuk-1/How-is-TJ-Holowaychuk-so-insanely-productive http://www.quora.com/TJ-Holowaychuk-1/How-is-TJ-Holowaychuk-...
- teacup50 12y ago
  What am I supposed to take away from these links, other than the technical culture's self-defeating tendency to lionize individuals to fit a hero narrative?
  - sergiotapia 12y ago
    If you read the second link, it's presented that that guy is actually a group of people working under a phony name, to give the cult a "hero". Drum up hype, etc. It's been done before too! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Bourbaki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Bourbaki --- Nicolas Bourbaki is the collective pseudonym under which a group of (mainly French) 20th-century mathematicians wrote a series of books presenting an exposition of modern advanced mathematics, beginning in 1935. With the goal of founding all of mathematics on set theory, the group strove for rigour and generality. Their work led to the discovery of several concepts and terminologies still discussed.

jamescun 12y ago

It is a rather vauge statement and could have used some clarification; however Go does make writing network protocols very simple, and building something like a gossip protocol based system with a leader election system is doable in a week. Even quicker if you use some of the existing distributed systems libraries for Go.

cgag 12y ago
What does Go do that makes writing network protocols simple?
- skj 12y ago
  Go makes it straightforward to have one program efficiently communicating with many different servers and clients. It does this by having all network IO be event-based in such a way that it's effectively tied directly into the scheduler, and then communicating between the different goroutines managing all these connections is very easy.
- micro_cam 12y ago
  All of the HTTP, socket, encryption, compression etc libraries have a really clean, consistent design based around stackable reader and writer interfaces. This makes it really easy to combine things, swap out transport layers etc. Go routines and channels are also nice for handling concurrent requests though I find myself using mutexes more than channels for finer grained control.

thomseddon 12y ago

You obviously don't know TJ... https://github.com/visionmedia https://github.com/visionmedia http://www.quora.com/TJ-Holowaychuk-1/How-is-TJ-Holowaychuk-so-insanely-productive http://www.quora.com/TJ-Holowaychuk-1/How-is-TJ-Holowaychuk-...

teacup50 12y ago
What am I supposed to take away from these links, other than the technical culture's self-defeating tendency to lionize individuals to fit a hero narrative?
- sergiotapia 12y ago
  If you read the second link, it's presented that that guy is actually a group of people working under a phony name, to give the cult a "hero". Drum up hype, etc. It's been done before too! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Bourbaki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Bourbaki --- Nicolas Bourbaki is the collective pseudonym under which a group of (mainly French) 20th-century mathematicians wrote a series of books presenting an exposition of modern advanced mathematics, beginning in 1935. With the goal of founding all of mathematics on set theory, the group strove for rigour and generality. Their work led to the discovery of several concepts and terminologies still discussed.