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Re:Gobs of data (2011) by ash on Monday December 04, 2023 @09:25AM (#38517614)
I've posted it because I'm always on the lookout for simple solutions for complex problems, and especially for how these solutions are designed. The post describes the design process well.

Also Rob Pike is a great technical writer. Another example of his style is "Effective Go":

https://go.dev/doc/effective_go

Re:Gobs of data (2011) by buro9 on Monday December 04, 2023 @09:35AM (#38517746)
yup, and if people are looking for usage I just found a gist that shows how gob handling can be useful (writing to cache that allows the reading back to be castable into the correct structs) https://gist.github.com/pioz/ca5b7a11200f54afbd76dee7acbcc06...