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Golang Internals Part 2: Nice benefits of named return values

Frank Wessels Frank Wessels on Golang 28 June 2017

You may know that Golang offers the ability to name return values. Thus far at MinIO we have not been using this feature much, but that’ll change since there are some nice hidden benefits as we will explain in this blog post. If you are like us, you may have considerable amounts of code as shown down below whereby

Golang Internals Part 1: Autogenerated functions (and how to get rid of them)

Frank Wessels Frank Wessels on Golang 14 June 2017

Maybe if you are like us at MinIO, you have every now and then come across ‘autogenerated’ functions in your Golang call stacks and wondered what they are all about? We had a case the other day where the call stack showed something like the following: cmd.retryStorage.ListDir(0x12847c0, 0xc420402e70, 0x1, ...) minio/cmd/retry-storage.go:183 +0x72 cmd.(*retryStorage)

ToolsLib switches to MinIO for scale and performance

Nitish Tiwari Nitish Tiwari on Cloud Computing 14 March 2017

ToolsLib recently switched to a brand new dashboard. However, behind the scenes, there was another switch happening. We used block based filesystem for underlying storage. However, as we grew, the filesystem was proving difficult to scale. So, we were looking to move from block based storage to an object store system, when we found MinIO. After initial analysis, MinIO looked

Debugging Go Routine leaks

MinIO MinIO

on Golang 24 February 2017

Before beginning with Debugging Goroutines leaks, let me give a small introduction of some fundamentals which will give you a broader perspective of the problem. Concurrent Programming. Concurrent programming deals with concurrent execution of a program wherein multiple sequential streams of execution run at a time resulting in faster execution of your computations.It helps in better utilization of multicore