Introduction

This chapter will focus on optimizing an application, discovering bottlenecks, and vendoring dependencies. These are some tips and tricks that can be used immediately by existing applications. Many of these recipes are necessary if you or your organization require fully reproducible builds. They're also useful when you want to benchmark an applications' performance. The final recipe focuses on increasing the speed of HTTP, however, it's always important to remember that the web world moves quickly, and it's important to refresh yourself on best practices. For example, if you require HTTP/2, it is now available using the built-in Go net/http package since version 1.6.