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Hands-On High Performance with Go

You're reading from   Hands-On High Performance with Go Boost and optimize the performance of your Golang applications at scale with resilience

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789805789
Length 406 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Section 1: Learning about Performance in Go
2. Introduction to Performance in Go FREE CHAPTER 3. Data Structures and Algorithms 4. Understanding Concurrency 5. STL Algorithm Equivalents in Go 6. Matrix and Vector Computation in Go 7. Section 2: Applying Performance Concepts in Go
8. Composing Readable Go Code 9. Template Programming in Go 10. Memory Management in Go 11. GPU Parallelization in Go 12. Compile Time Evaluations in Go 13. Section 3: Deploying, Monitoring, and Iterating on Go Programs with Performance in Mind
14. Building and Deploying Go Code 15. Profiling Go Code 16. Tracing Go Code 17. Clusters and Job Queues 18. Comparing Code Quality Across Versions 19. Other Books You May Enjoy

Extended capabilities with upstream pprof

If we want to be able to use additional functionality by default, we can use the upstream pprof binary in order to extend the views we have with our profiles:

  1. We can retrieve this with an invocation of go get github.com/google/pprof. The pprof tool has a couple different invocation methods. We can use the report generation method to generate a file in the requested format (currently supported are the .dot, .svg, .web, .png, .jpg, .gif, and .pdf formats). We can also use the interactive terminal format in a similar way to what we did in the previous sections about CPU and memory profiling. The last and most commonly used method is using the HTTP server. This method involves hosting an HTTP server that includes much of the pertinent output in an easily digestible format.
  1. Once we have retrieved the binary via go get, we can invoke it with...
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