Experimental Refactoring with Go

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1. Experimental Refactoring

2. FIND ME github.com/jelmersnoeck twitter.com/jelmersnoeck Jelmer Snoeck ABOUT ME - Tech

   Lead at manifold.co - Kubernetes - Terraform - Gopher since 2013 - Kubelist Contributor

3. $ tree - What and why? - Techniques & Tools

   - Zero Downtime Refactoring - Experimental Refactoring

4. Photo by Dan Gold on Unsplash Refactoring

5. Code refactoring is the process of restructuring existing computer code

   without changing its external behavior. Wikipedia

6. Refactoring is a controlled technique for improving the design of

   an existing code base. Martin Fowler

7. Refactoring is changing things, deploying it and hoping it didn’t

   break anything else. Most Developers

8. Photo by Emily Morter on Unsplash Why

9. Photo by Alfons Morales on Unsplash Readability

10. Photo by Anton Darius on Unsplash Code smells

11. Code smells - Duplication - Feature envy - Large methods

    - Dead code - …

12. Photo by Glen Carrie on Unsplash Bugs

13. Product Changes Photo by Chris Lawton on Unsplash Product changes

14. Product changes - New features - Modify existing features -

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15. Photo by Nainoa Shizuru on Unsplash Performance + scalability

16. Performance - Change of underlying package - Change of underlying

    algorithm - …

17. Scalability - Userbase growth (100 users to 100m users) -

    Team growth (10 developers to 500 developers) - …

18. Photo by Anoir Chafik on Unsplash

19. Techniques Photo by Uriel Soberanes on Unsplash

20. Techniques - Interface Abstraction - Type Aliasing (Go 1.9+) -

    Nil Objects - …

21. Interfaces (Abstraction) Photo by Rene Böhmer on Unsplash

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27. Photo by Kipras Štreimikis on Unsplash Type Aliasing

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33. Photo by Aaron Burden on Unsplash Nil Objects

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41. Photo by Philip Swinburn on Unsplash Tools

42. Detection Tools - CodeCov - Linting - …

43. CodeCov Photo by Samuel Zeller on Unsplash

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49. Linting Photo by Terri Bleeker on Unsplash

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53. Refactoring Tools - Tests - Security that it still works

    - Gotests - Benchmarks - go test -bench=. - IDE - Extract methods - Find duplication easily

54. gotests Photo by rawpixel on Unsplash

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59. go test -bench=. Photo by Ashley Baxter on Unsplash

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64. Photo by Mark Hessling on Unsplash

65. Photo by Jyotirmoy Gupta on Unsplash

66. Photo by Marcus Benedix on Unsplash

67. Zero Downtime Refactoring Photo by Masaaki Komori on Unsplash

68. Multi Step Changes Photo by Jake Hills on Unsplash

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76. Photo by Jane Carmona on Unsplash Feature Flags

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78. Why use Feature Toggles? - Early Access to Features -

    Incremental roll outs to test hypothesis - Calendar Events (Mother’s day, Launches, …) - …
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82. Metrics Photo by Carlos Muza on Unsplash

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84. Experimental Refactoring Photo by chuttersnap on Unsplash

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102. @jelmersnoeck manifold.co Thanks!

103. Reading list - https://speakerdeck.com/campoy/understanding-nil - https://talks.golang.org/2016/refactor.article - https://dave.cheney.net/2013/06/30/how-to-write-benchmarks-in-go - https://github.com/cweill/gotests

     - https://github.com/github/scientist - https://github.com/jelmersnoeck/experiment - http://featureflags.io/ - https://github.com/launchdarkly/go-client - https://github.com/checkr/flagr