Madpig - Measure and Deepen Performance in Go

Explore performance optimization techniques in Go with this comprehensive conference talk. Dive into benchmarking, profiling, and optimization strategies to improve your Go applications' speed and efficiency. Learn to use Go's powerful tooling, including Pprof and Trace, to identify bottlenecks and optimize code at various abstraction levels. Discover the importance of writing concurrent code when beneficial, and understand the impact of context switches and garbage collection on performance. Master the art of writing effective benchmarks and tests to preserve semantics during refactoring. Gain insights into memory allocation, regular expressions, maps, random numbers, I/O, and standard library trade-offs. Explore advanced concepts like Flame Graphs and the Race detector to further enhance your Go programming skills and make informed decisions about when and how to optimize your code.