--- title: "#155: How to Ship Production-Grade Go" publication: "Go Weekly" issue: 155 published_at: "2017-04-13" canonical_url: "https://golangweekly.com/issues/155" --- Go Newsletter 155 . [Read this on the Web](http://golangweekly.com/issues/155) [Go Newsletter](http://golangweekly.com) Issue 155 — April 13, 2017 Featured [See What Your Program Is Really Doing With 'go tool trace'](https://making.pusher.com/go-tool-trace/?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) If you haven’t used it yet, this is a good look at a handy Go tool for monitoring your program’s usage of goroutines, memory, threads, and more. Will Sewell [How to Ship Production-Grade Go](https://www.oreilly.com/ideas/how-to-ship-production-grade-go?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) A look at several things you can do to make your code more robust, debuggable, and ready for production. Kavya Joshi [Go's Realtime Garbage Collector](https://pusher.com/sessions/meetup/the-realtime-guild/golangs-realtime-garbage-collector?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) video In 35 minutes, see how and why Go’s garbage collector works, what the tricolor algorithm is, and how it compares with GC in other languages. Jim Fisher and Will Sewell [Multiplexing Golang Channels to Maximize Throughput](https://engineering.mongodb.com/post/multiplexing-golang-channels-to-maximize-throughput?jmp=cpress&utm_campaign=WW_CP_newsletter_sponsorship_FY17Q2&utm_content=sponsored&utm_medium=&utm_source=gonewsletter) While rewriting our database backup utility, mongodump, we utilized a “divide-and-multiplex” method to marry a high-throughput concurrent workload with a serial output. 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