Ben Johnson, creator of BoltDB, joined the show to talk about NoSQL vs. Sql databases, tradeoffs between the two, and choosing one over the other. We also talk about Ben’s Secret Lives of Data project, visualizing data structures, and go over his motivation and plans for his blog post series “Go Walkthrough” of the Go standard library.
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Show Notes:
Bolt DBThe Secret Lives of DataBen’s Go Walkthrough blog series on MediumGo Walkthrough: encoding packageGo Walkthrough: bytes + strings packagesGo Walkthrough: io packageStandard Package LayoutBuilding WTF DialClean Code (book)The Pragmatic Programmer (bool)Column-oriented DBMSBleve: full-text search and indexing for Go#boltdb channel on Gophers SlackomnominatorVimGolfInteresting Go Projects and News
Noms: decentralized database based on ideas from Gitupper.io/db.v2: Magic-free ORM-like package for GoFree Software Friday
Brian - Minikube: Run Kubernetes locally and Quilt: deploy and network containersCarlisia - Stow: symlink managerBen - Kelsey HightowerErik - Archtrike: An Arch Linux repository for security professionals and enthusiasts and Request for CommitsSomething missing or broken? PRs welcome!