Have you ever wondered what happens with the variables you define in your Golang (Go) programs? Do they exist forever, or are they recycled at some point? Where do they live in memory and how are they managed?
In this post I present a story of a bug that hit us recently. Everything was caused by unexpected (although documented) behavior of Go built-in function append. This bug has lived silently for nearly a year in allegro/marathon-consul. Ensure you run the latest version.
Recently our team has been tasked to write a very fast cache service. The goal was pretty clear but possible to achieve in many ways. Finally we decided to try something new and implement the service in Go. We have described how we did it and what values come from that.
