Reading Humongous Files in Go

A real-world performance comparison between Node.js and Go for file parsing unsurprisingly turns out in Go’s favor — but how much? This blog post was first published on Medium, available via CloudBoost. Part One Being fairly new to Go aka. Golang, I was itching to try it out on a real-world problem after having done numerous tutorials and CodeWars katas (don’t know CodeWars? Try it out, it’s really cool). At my workplace, my boss just so happened to find himself in a situation where he needed to parse a humongous XML file — a perfect opportunity to show off my new Golang skills! [Read More]