This book is written with intermediate to advanced Go developers in mind. These developers will be looking to squeeze more performance out of their Go application. To do this, this book will help to drive the four golden signals as defined in the Site Reliability Engineering Workbook (https://landing.google.com/sre/sre-book/chapters/monitoring-distributed-systems/). If we can reduce latency and errors, as well as increase traffic whilst reducing saturation, our programs will continue to be more performant. Following the ideology of the four golden signals is beneficial for anyone developing a Go application with performance in mind.
In this chapter, you'll be introduced to some of the core concepts of performance ...
