Philippe Gaultier 7/1/2025

An optimization and debugging story with Go and DTrace

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The article details a developer's experience optimizing a Go application's slow test suite. Using profiling and DTrace, they identified that most time was spent sorting SQL migration files, leading to the discovery of a superlinear algorithmic complexity issue. The post serves as a technical case study on debugging unfamiliar codebases with advanced tools.

An optimization and debugging story with Go and DTrace

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