mattheath

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   by mattheath 9y ago

   You're welcome! In our case linkerd is critical to this, as we've offloaded load balancing, circuit breaking, and retry policies etc to linkerd. If we hadn't then we would need to implement this functionality in multiple lang
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   by mattheath 9y ago

   We store the vast majority of our data in Cassandra, which gives us tuneable consistency and high availability given its master-less architecture. Those properties suit the rest of our architecture perfectly, though there are of course trad
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   by mattheath 9y ago

   Hi, author here. Happy to answer any questions!
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   by mattheath 10y ago

   TL;DR Yes, but as someone else mentioned, the real question isn't if Go is suitable for Fintech, but if it's suitable for your team and the specific problem you are trying to solve. I work for a startup called Mondo - we're b
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   by mattheath 11y ago

   That was me ;) Atom's great until you save and goimports locks up the whole UI. Think that is the protobuf interface used by the client and server in our tracing tool, so handy having them all open! https://github.com/m
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   by mattheath 12y ago

   I would disagree with this - it's a very broad statement. While building frameworks often encourages developers to abstract to the nth degree and add far more flexibility than is required, if you have specific requirements what's