This talk covers my experiences designing, building and testing a open-source distributed metrics store in Go.

I'll explain:

• the system architecture and the trade-offs involved in distributed systems
• how the design evolved
• how Go is well-suited to high throughput distributed systems
• useful libraries for building such systems in Go
• using pprof to identify performance bottlenecks
• how data structures affect garbage collection in high-throughput systems
• testing strategies and failure injection